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Monday, January 25, 2010

Where is the great Rift Valley ?


The Great Rift Valley
This is a series of linked rift valleys which stretch for 6500 kilometers from the north of River Jordon, via the Dead Sea and the Red Sea , through Ethiopia and east Africa to the coast near the mouth of Zambezi River.

The Great Rift VAlley is between 30 and 60 kilometers wide and has steep scarps on each side for most of its lenght.Elsewhere there are long, narrow deep lakes such as Turkana, Mobutu, Tanganyaika and Malawi in East Africa the route of the Rift Valley splits into two branches.

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