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Great Rift Valley System
- The most well-known rift valley on Earth is probably the so-called " Great Rift Valley System," which stretches from the Middle East in the north to Mozambique in the south.
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Jan 4, 2024 · The most well-known rift valley on Earth is probably the so-called "Great Rift Valley System," which stretches from the Middle East in the north to Mozambique in the south. The area is geologically active, and features volcanoes , hot springs , geysers , and frequent earthquakes .
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Many of the world's largest lakes are located in rift valleys. Lake Baikal in Siberia, a World Heritage Site, lies in an active rift valley. Baikal is both the deepest lake in the world and, with 20% of all of the liquid freshwater on earth, has the greatest volume.
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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Apr 27, 2024 · The most extensive of the continental rift valleys are those of the East African Rift System, which extend northward to the Red Sea and eastward into the Indian Ocean. Other notable examples include the Baikal Rift Valley (Russia) and the Rhine Rift Valley (Germany).
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The Eastern African Rift Valley is a long valley flanked by uplifted shoulders that step down to the central rift by more or less parallel faults. The main valley is classed as a continental rift, extending from 12 degrees north to 15 degrees south of our planet's equator. It extends a length of 3,500 km and intersects major portions of the modern...
Following on the mid- to late-19th-century work of dozens of explorers including the famous David Livingstone, the concept of an East African rift fracture was established by Austrian geologist Eduard Suess, and named the Great Rift Valley of East Africa in 1896 by British geologist John Walter Gregory. In 1921, Gregory described the GRV as a syste...
In the 1970s, paleontologist Richard Leakey designated the East African Rift region as the "Cradle of Mankind," and there is no doubt that the earliest hominids—members of the Homospecies—arose within its boundaries. Why that happened is a matter of conjecture, but may have something to do with the steep valley walls and microclimates created withi...
Analysis of the rift reported by German geologist Sascha Brune and colleagues in March 2019 (Corti et al. 2019) suggests that although the rift began as two overlapping disconnected rifts (Ethiopian and Kenyan), the lateral offset that lies in the Turkana depression has evolved and continues to evolve into a single oblique rift. In March of 2018, a...
Blinkhorn, J., and M. Grove. "The Structure of the Middle Stone Age of Eastern Africa." Quaternary Science Reviews195 (2018): 1–20. Print.Chorowicz, Jean. "The East African Rift System." Journal of African Earth Sciences43.1–3 (2005): 379–410. Print.Corti, Giacomo, et al. "Aborted Propagation of the Ethiopian Rift Caused by Linkage with the Kenyan Rift." Nature Communications10.1 (2019): 1309. Print.Deino, Alan L., et al. "Chronology of the Acheulean to Middle Stone Age Transition in Eastern Africa." Science360.6384 (2018): 95–98. Print.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.
The term Great Rift Valley is most often used to refer to the valley of the East African Rift, the divergent plate boundary which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward through eastern Africa, and is in the process of splitting the African Plate into two new and separate plates.
