the Great Rift valley was made when the divergent plate boundary which extends from the Afar Triple Juction southward across eastern Africa, and is in the process of splitting the African plate into two new separate plates.
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Travel question: How is a rift valley made? Valley formed by the subsidence of a block of the Earth's crust between two or more parallel faults. ... Great Rift Valley (geographical area, Asia/Africa in geology) ... Valley formed by the subsidence of a block of the Earth's crust between two or more parallel faults.
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Great Rift Valley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Great Rift Valley is a name given in the late 19th century by British explorer John Walter Gregory to the continuous geographic trench, approximately 6000 kilometer in length, that runs from nor...
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Great Rift Valley, geological fault system of SW Asia and E Africa. It extends c.3,000 mi (4,830 km) from N Syria to central Mozambique. The northernmost extension runs S through Syria and Lebanon, the Jordan valley, the Dead Sea, and the Gulf of Aqaba.
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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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Volcanic valley formed 10–20 million years ago owing to rifting (major subsidence through faulting) of part of the Earth's crust, and running about 8,000 km/5,000 mi from the Jordan Valley through the Red Sea to central Mozambique in ... For most of its length the Rift Valley has a width of some 60 km/35 mi and,
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We are now on the western branch of the Great Rift Valley, formed by movements of tectonic plates--huge chunks of the earths crust which "float" on an underlayer of molten rock.
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What Is the Rift Valley? Africa's Great Rift Valley is a 6,000-mile crack (fissure) in the earth's crust, stretching from Lebanon to Mozambique. One of its most dramatic sections slices through East Geologists know that the Rift Valley was formed by violent subterranean forces that tore apart the earth's crust.
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Created amongst the massive eruptions that formed the Rift itself, Longonot has beautiful V-shaped valleys and ridges covered in forest, which are a haven for a variety of birds and animals. With hiking, rock climbing, biking joining the more normal game ... Crater Lake - one the gems of the Great Rift Valley, Kenya.
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