Landform
The Great Rift Valley
Also Known As East African Rift Sources commonly use the two names interchangeably, though East African Rift more precisely names the whole tectonic rift system, of which the Great Rift Valley's Eastern branch is the best-known surface expression.
Valleys and Rift Systems
A continuous geographic trench running from Lebanon in the Levant south through the Red Sea and East Africa to Mozambique, marking the boundary where the African tectonic plate is slowly splitting into the Nubian and Somali plates. Its African stretch holds a chain of deep rift lakes, including Lake Tanganyika and Lake Malawi, and volcanic highlands whose fossil record has been central to the study of early human evolution.
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Source East African Rift (Wikipedia)
The Danakil Depression constitutes the northern part of the Afar Triangle / Afar Depression, itself part of the Great Rift Valley system.
Source Danakil Depression (Wikipedia)
Source East African Rift (Wikipedia)
The Rift African stretch, including Lake Tanganyika, Lake Malawi and its volcanic highlands, runs directly through this region.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Source Kenya (Wikipedia)
Source Lake Malawi (Wikipedia)
Source Lake Tanganyika (Wikipedia)
Source East African Rift (Wikipedia)
The Great Rift Valley is the active surface trace of a divergent plate boundary splitting the African Plate into the Nubian and Somali plates.
Source British Geological Survey
Source East African Rift (Wikipedia)
Source East African Rift (Wikipedia)
The Horn's mountains and highlands were raised by the same Great Rift Valley system.
Source Horn of Africa (Wikipedia)
Source East African Rift (Wikipedia)
Source East African Rift (Wikipedia)
Demonstrates
An active continental rift zone with ongoing volcanic activity along its length.
Source United States Geological Survey
Shaped By
Source The Great Rift Valley (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. United States Geological Survey
2. East African Rift (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationOpening section
A narrow zone, the rift is a developing divergent tectonic plate boundary where the African plate is in the process of splitting into two tectonic plates.
Infobox coordinates
3°00′S 35°30′E / 3.0°S 35.5°E / -3.0; 35.5
Associated With: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Extent section
The Western Rift Valley includes the Albertine Rift, which transects Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi through the Ruzizi Plain, and farther south Tanzania, Zambia, the valley of Lake Malawi and Mozambique.
Associated With: Uganda, Extent section
The Western Rift Valley includes the Albertine Rift, which transects Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi through the Ruzizi Plain, and farther south Tanzania, Zambia, the valley of Lake Malawi and Mozambique.
Associated With: Rwanda, Extent section
The Western Rift Valley includes the Albertine Rift, which transects Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi through the Ruzizi Plain, and farther south Tanzania, Zambia, the valley of Lake Malawi and Mozambique.
Associated With: Burundi, Extent section
The Western Rift Valley includes the Albertine Rift, which transects Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi through the Ruzizi Plain, and farther south Tanzania, Zambia, the valley of Lake Malawi and Mozambique.
Associated With: Tanzania, Extent section
The Western Rift Valley includes the Albertine Rift, which transects Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi through the Ruzizi Plain, and farther south Tanzania, Zambia, the valley of Lake Malawi and Mozambique.
Associated With: Zambia, Extent section
The Western Rift Valley includes the Albertine Rift, which transects Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi through the Ruzizi Plain, and farther south Tanzania, Zambia, the valley of Lake Malawi and Mozambique.
Associated With: Mozambique, Extent section
The Western Rift Valley includes the Albertine Rift, which transects Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi through the Ruzizi Plain, and farther south Tanzania, Zambia, the valley of Lake Malawi and Mozambique.
View the Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.- East African Rift System
- Associated With: East Africa
View the Source Horn of Africa (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationArticle textQuote, Article text
It consists chiefly of mountains uplifted through the formation of the Great Rift Valley, a fissure in the Earth's crust extending from Turkey to Mozambique and marking the separation of the African and Arabian tectonic plates. Mostly mountainous, the region arose through faults resulting from the Rift Valley.
Wikidata: Rift Valley
British Geological Survey
British Geological SurveyAssociated With: Plate Tectonics, Discovering Geology: plate tectonicsView the Source Kenya (Wikipedia)
Lake Tanganyika (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Lake Tanganyika, Lead sectionQuote, Associated With: Lake Tanganyika, Lead section
Lake Tanganyika... located within the Albertine Rift, part of the East African Rift system.
Lake Malawi (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Lake Malawi, Lead sectionQuote, Associated With: Lake Malawi, Lead section
the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system
Danakil Depression (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Danakil Depression, Lead sectionQuote, Associated With: Danakil Depression, Lead section
It constitutes the northern part of the Afar Triangle or Afar Depression.
The Great Rift Valley (Wikipedia)
Shaped By: Plate Tectonics, Lead and geology textQuote, Shaped By: Plate Tectonics, Lead and geology text
The northern part of the AAR is formed by the Dead Sea Transform (DST) (also known as the Dead Sea or Levantine rift), the
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