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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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    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 boundary which...
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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 third-largest freshwater lake...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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