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Great Rift Valley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rift Valley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In order of specificity, Rift Valley can refer to: •a rift valley in general •the Great Rift Valley •the valley of the East African Rift •Rift Valley Province, Kenya and border with Uganda
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rift valley, elongated depression, trough, or graben in the earth's crust, bounded on both sides by normal faults and occurring on the continents or under the oceans. The central flat block forming the trough slips downward relative to the crustal blocks on either side.
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Locations in Kenya, Africa - Jambo Kenya: The Rift Valley. ... This geologic phenomena, dubbed the Great Rift Valley by the Scottish explorer John Walter Gregory, divides Kenya neatly down the length of the country essentially separating east from west. Today's Rift Valley is characterized by uninhabitable desert and...
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The Rift Valley Messenger ... REQUEST THE RIFT VALLEY MESSENGER ... The Rift Valley Institute has opened offices in Kenya and in the United States. The Kenya office is located in Nairobi, in the premises of the British Institute in Eastern Africa. The US office is on the campus of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
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Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a viral zoonosis that was first identified in Kenya in 1931. This mosquito-borne disease primarily affects animals but that also has the capacity to infect humans. The vast majority of human infections result from direct or indirect contact with the blood or organs of infected animals.
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The Great Rift Valley will Lead to the Somali Plate ... A real-life triple rift is shown on the left between Africa and Saudi Arabia. The two arms of the Y are the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The stem of the Y is the Great Rift Valley, which is tearing Africa apart.
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Valley formed by the subsidence of a block of the Earth's crust between two or more parallel faults. Rift valleys are steep-sided and form where the crust is being pulled apart, as at mid-ocean ridges, or in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa.
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