rift valley in English

noun
1
a large elongated depression with steep walls formed by the downward displacement of a block of the earth's surface between nearly parallel faults or fault systems.
The most important discussion of volcanic activity focuses on the Owens Valley, which is in fact an active rift valley .

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1. Blant Afarene i Etiopias Rift Valley

2. And the Rift Valley is a depression.

3. 6 We are descending into the Galapagos Rift Valley.

4. An estimated four million flamingos inhabit Africa’s Great Rift Valley.

5. Luisenlund Bronze Age monoliths and the rift valley of Ekkodal.

6. 5 The rift valley is at least several decametres deep.

7. 2 Luisenlund Bronze Age monoliths and the rift valley of Ekkodal.

8. 16 Upland masses exist on either side of a central rift valley.

9. This is East Africa, the Great Rift Valley, a land in constant upheaval.

10. 11 The rift valley is a classic example of a divergent plate boundary.

11. 15 Human cases of Rift Valley fever (RVF) continue to occur in Sudan.

12. Mutai opened 2009 with a win at the South Rift Valley 12 km championships.

13. 19 They, too, found warm - water spots along the center of the rift valley.

14. 14 This is East Africa, the Great Rift Valley, a land in constant upheaval.

15. Liaohe Basin is a fault basin of rift valley type formed in Cenozoic Era.

16. Strangely, this migration is simultaneous with that of flamingos on the other Rift Valley soda lakes.

17. 12 Most of the Kalenjin people in the Rift Valley are hostile to Kikuyu political domination.

18. 9 Human cases of Rift Valley fever (RVF) in Sudan have decreased continuously in recent weeks.

19. 1 They had established a running diagnosis of Rift Valley fever, dengue or the dreaded Ebola.

20. It is arguably the greatest avian wonder on earth —the pink flamingos of Africa’s Great Rift Valley.

21. 20 It was, at the time, the biggest recorded outbreak of Rift Valley fever in east Africa.

22. Ardi, nickname for a partial female hominid skeleton recovered at Aramis, in Ethiopia ’s Afar rift valley

23. At the time, New Jersey was home to a great rift valley full of volcanic-rock flows.

24. Enjoy the scenic drive along the floor of the Great Rift Valley, with a picnic lunch enroute.

25. 17 Enjoy the scenic drive along the floor of the Great Rift Valley, with a picnic lunch enroute.

26. 26 More than 25 human samples have proved positive for Rift Valley fever by PCR or ELISA testing.

27. Perhaps, through this sea of sand, our ancestors trekked from the Great Rift Valley and into our lives.

28. In 2006, Uganda confirmed the existence of commercially viable petroleum reserves in the Western Rift Valley around Lake Albert.

29. 3 The Rift Valley, the scene of the clashes involving Moi's minority Kalenjin people, was described a war zone.

30. 4 Further evidence contradicting the traditional symmetric rift valley model comes from observations of their morphology and surface structure.

31. 18 Perhaps, through this sea of sand,[www.Sentencedict.com] our ancestors trekked from the Great Rift Valley and into our lives.

32. Lake Bogoria region in the middle of the Great Rift Valley of Kenya, Nairobi, away from Ken about 300 km.

33. One February the retired officer traveled 100 miles [160 km] to the son’s home in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru.

34. After breakfast, drive to Masai Mara via the Great Rift Valley to arrive at Maasai Mara in time for evening game drive.

35. It is one of the rivers in India that flows in a rift valley, flowing west between the Satpura and Vindhya ranges.

36. Nyiragongo is in the Great Rift Valley, where the African continental plate is being wrenched apart, and microquakes constantly shake the volcano.

37. A thermostable, alkaline active xylanase was purified from an alkaliphilic Bacillus halodurans S7, isolated from a soda lake in the Ethiopian Rift Valley.

38. Situated along the Great Rift Valley, Nyiragongo had a lava lake in its summit crater, which burst during the night in January 19

39. 7 Situated along the Great Rift Valley, Nyiragongo had a lava lake in its summit crater, which burst during the night in January 19

40. A lake in the Great Rift Valley of central Africa on the Zaire-Uganda border. It was discovered by Henry M. Stanley in 8

41. 25 The region is known to be endemic for many health problems, including cholera, diarrhea, malaria, shigellosis, Rift Valley fever, measles, meningitis and malnutrition.

42. 10 Human cases of Rift Valley fever (RVF) continue to occur in Sudan, with more than 221 cases reported in the last two weeks.

43. The landlocked country of Burundi is located in the Great Rift Valley in the area of convergence between East Africa and the African Great Lakes region

44. 8 It is mainly distributed in the rift valley zone or hot spot district of northeastward Yangming mountain, Xiangtan, which corresponds to the mantle-uplift district.

45. 27 There have never been Scrapie, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, African horse sickness, African swine fever, Vesicular stomatitis, Lumpy skin disease and Rift Valley fever in China.

46. His wild eyes flash in desperation. His breath comes in truncated snorts. The Cape buffalo's hoarse bellows resonate across a stretch of Africa's Great Rift Valley.

47. Morning visit the fish market, and then drive back to Addis Ababa, by admiring the Rift Valley lakes of Shala, Abyata and Langano, Afternoon free in Addis.

48. 21 Roughly 450 miles (730 kilometers) long and 60 miles (100 kilometers) across at its broadest point, Luangwa is the tail end of Africa's Great Rift Valley.

49. About Asmara Satellite view is showing Asmara, largest city and the national capital of Eritrea.The city is located on the edge the Great Rift Valley and the Eritrean …

50. Like Lake Tanganyika, Lake Baikal was formed as an ancient rift valley, having the typical long, crescent shape with a surface area of 31,722 km2 (12,248 sq mi).