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    The East African Rift (EAR) or East African Rift System (EARS) is an active continental rift zone in East Africa. The EAR began developing around the onset...
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    contains a number of Africa's wildlife parks. The term Great Rift Valley is most often used to refer to the valley of the East African Rift, the divergent plate...
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    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...
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    constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift. The series includes Lake Victoria, the second-largest freshwater...
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    rift flanks and the surrounding areas. In many cases rift lakes are formed. One of the best known examples of this process is the East African Rift....
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    plate began rifting from the African plate along the East African Rift. Since the continent of Africa consists of crust from both the African and the Somali...
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    south. It is part of the Gregory Rift, the eastern branch of the East African Rift, which starts in Tanzania to the south and continues northward into...
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    Aden Ridge and the East African Rift, forming the Afar triple junction in the Afar Depression of the Horn of Africa. The Red Sea Rift was formed by the...
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    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...
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    The Gregory Rift (Ufa la Gregori, in Swahili) is the eastern branch of the East African Rift fracture system. The rift is being caused by the separation...
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    southern rifting arm is better known as the East African Rift or the East African Rift System (EARS), when it includes the Afar Triangle. A rift is the...
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    Somali plate (category Geology of Africa)
    the African plate along the East African Rift Valley. It is approximately centered on the island of Madagascar and includes about half of the east coast...
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    and Lake Tanganyika comprise part of the African Great Lakes, caused by the East African Rift, a continental rift zone that bisects Tanzania, Kenya, and...
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    Albertine Rift montane forests (French: Forêts montagnardes du Rift Albertin) is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in east-central Africa. The ecoregion...
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    East African Rift The Orcadian Basin, in northern Scotland, had rift lakes that formed during the Middle Devonian. Rift Valley lakes, eastern Africa Lake...
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    9°S 34°E / 9°S 34°E / -9; 34 The Albertine Rift is the western branch of the East African Rift, covering parts of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of...
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    marine post-rift. The Asunción Rift in Eastern Paraguay The Canadian Arctic Rift System in northern North America The East African Rift The West and...
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    East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical...
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  • the East African Rift Rift Valley fever, mild to severe viral disease Great Rift Valley (disambiguation) Jordan Rift Valley Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley...
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    plate began rifting from the African plate along the East African Rift. Since the continent of Africa consists of crust from both the African and the Somali...
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    widely accepted that rifting in the East African Rift system, 22–25 million years ago, resulted in the splitting of the African plate into 2 smaller plates...
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    at the border with Kenya. It is in the Gregory Rift, which is the eastern branch of the East African Rift. The lake is within the Lake Natron Basin, a Ramsar...
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    West and Central African Rift System (WCARS) is a rift system composed of two coeval Cretaceous rift sub-systems, the West African Rift sub-system (WAS)...
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    in Africa, centered on Lake Chad. East African Rift. The region contains Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda. Eastern Rift mountains Rift Valley Lakes African Great...
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    northernmost of the chain of lakes in the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift. It is about 160 kilometres (99 mi) long and 30 kilometres...
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  • second-most numerous group of peoples inhabiting the African Great Lakes region around the East African Rift. They make up a notable part of the population...
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    Von der Decken's hornbill (category Birds of East Africa)
    hornbill (Tockus deckeni) is a hornbill found in East Africa, especially to the east of the East African Rift, from Ethiopia south to Tanzania. It is found...
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    Afro-Eurasia (redirect from Eurasia-Africa)
    and African plate dominate their respective continents. However, the Somali plate covers much of eastern Africa, creating the East African Rift. In the...
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    Volcano (redirect from Rift volcano)
    the crust's plates, such as in the East African Rift, the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field, and the Rio Grande rift in North America. Volcanism away...
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    greatest of which occur on a meridional line east of the eastern trough. The eastern branch of the East African Rift, contains much smaller lakes, many of them...
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