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Map of the Great Rift Valley. The Great Rift Valley (Swahili: Bonde la ufa) is a series of contiguous geographic trenches, approximately 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) in total length, that runs from Lebanon in Asia to Mozambique in Southeast Africa.
The Great Rift Valley is a geographical and geological feature running north to south for around 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers), from northern Syria to central Mozambique in East Africa. Astronauts say it is the most significant physical detail on the planet that is visible from space.
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The Great Rift Valley is mainly in Africa. Great Rift Valley map This is not one simple valley, but a group of related geological structures in East Africa with extensions that reach as far as Syria and Yemen. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain. Photo: Antony Trivet, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo: McKay Savage, CC BY 2.0. Photo: Ndunguwanjoroge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
East African Rift System, one of the most extensive rifts on Earth’s surface, extending from Jordan in southwestern Asia southward through eastern Africa to Mozambique. The system is some 4,000 miles (6,400 km) long and averages 30–40 miles (48–64 km) wide. The system consists of two branches.
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Mar 30, 2019 · K. Kris Hirst. Updated on March 30, 2019. The Rift Valley of eastern Africa and Asia (sometimes called the Great Rift Valley [GRV] or East African Rift system [EAR or EARS]) is an enormous geological split in the crust of the earth, thousands of kilometers long, up to 125 miles (200 kilometers) wide, and between a few hundred to thousands of ...
Part I. The East African Rift System. The East African Rift System (EARS) is one of the geologic wonders of the world, a place where the earth's tectonic forces are presently trying to create new plates by splitting apart old ones. In simple terms, a rift can be thought of as a fracture in the earth's surface that widens over time, or more ...
Africa's Great Rift Valley - shown as a broken black strip on the map - stretches from the Red Sea through East Africa (with eastern and western branches) to the southern end of Mozambique. It is the only major physiographic land feature on earth visible with the naked eye from the moon.
