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A map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes (as red triangles) and the Afar Triangle (shaded at the center), which is a so-called triple junction (or triple point) where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian plate and two parts of the African plate—the Nubian and Somali—splitting along the East African Rift Zone Main rift faults, plates ...
Map of the Great Rift Valley. The Great Rift Valley (Swahili: Bonde la ufa) is a series of contiguous geographic depressions, approximately 6,000 or 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) in total length, the definition varying between sources, that runs from the southern Turkish Hatay Province in Asia, through the Red Sea, to Mozambique in Southeast Africa.
Lower East Rift Zone, 230 to 375 m (755 to 1,230 ft) 0 1750 (?) Historical observations: East Rift Zone (Heiheiahulu), 520 m (1,710 ft) 0 1700 ± 25 years: Magnetism: Upper East Rift Zone (Kokoolau) 0 1650 ± 50 years: Tephrochronology: Kīlauea summit (Observatory vent) 1 1610 ± 50 years: Radiocarbon (uncorrected) Lower East Rift Zone (Puʻu ...
The Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia, (or Main Ethiopian Rift or Ethiopian Rift Valley) is a branch of the East African Rift that runs through Ethiopia in a southwest direction from the Afar triple junction. In the past, it was seen as part of a "Great Rift Valley" that ran from Mozambique to Syria. Known for its scenery and diverse wildlife in ...
The Rift Valley lakes are a series of lakes in the East African Rift valley that runs through eastern Africa from Ethiopia in the north to Malawi in the south, and includes the African Great Lakes in the south. These include some of the world's oldest lakes, deepest lakes, largest lakes by area, and largest lakes by volume.
Map of ongoing intrusion and earthquake activity along Kīlauea's East Rift Zone (May 2, 2018) Collapse in the crater of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō, [ 21 ] creating an ash plume (May 3, 2018) Eruption in the Leilani Estates subdivision (May 3, 2018)
Lake Baikal in Siberia, a World Heritage Site, [3] 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. [4] Lake Tanganyika, second by both measures, is in the Albertine Rift, the westernmost arm of the active East African Rift.
The Huadong Valley or Hualien–Taitung Valley (Chinese: 花東縱谷; pinyin: Huādōng Zònggǔ; Wade–Giles: Hua 1-tung 1 Tsung 4-ku 3), also known as East Rift Valley, the Longitudinal Valley or as the Nakasendō Plain (中仙道平野, Nakasendō Heiya) during the era of Japanese rule, is a long and narrow valley located between the Central Mountain Range and the Coastal Mountain Range ...