Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Rift valleys are also known to occur on other terrestrial planets and natural satellites. The 4,000 km long Valles Marineris on Mars is believed by planetary geologists to be a large rift system. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Some features of Venus, most notably, the 4,000 km Devana Chasma [ 9 ] and a part of the western Eistla, and possibly also Alta and Bell ...
English: Map of the Great Rift Valley. English version. The background map and the locator map are raster images embeded into the SVG file. Date: 9 June 2008: Source:
{{Information |Description=Great rift in the region of the greats lakes, Africa Le rift dans la région des grands lacs |Source=Image:Great_Rift_Valley.png made by En rouge. Blank map: Image:Africa map political.svg ; Turkish version: [[:File
Map of larger region that the lakes are in, including the so-called Great Rift Valley. View over Lake Turkana. 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.
The Ethiopian Rift Valley lakes occupy the floor of the rift valley between the two highlands. Most of the Ethiopian Rift Valley lakes do not have an outlet, and most are alkaline. Although the Ethiopian Rift Valley Lakes are of great importance to Ethiopia's economy, as well as being essential to the survival of the local people, there were no ...
There are also volcanoes in Lake Turkana. The Suguta Valley, or Suguta Mud Flats, is an arid part of the Great Rift Valley directly south of Lake Turkana. The shield volcano Emuruangogolak straddles the valley to the south of Suguta, and further south Mount Silali and Paka rise from the valley floor. Paka is a shield volcano, with widespread ...
The African Great Lakes system, (in blue) Map of larger region including the East African Rift and the entire so-called Great Rift Valley The African Great Lakes (Swahili: Maziwa Makuu; Kinyarwanda: Ibiyaga bigari) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift.