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Great Rift Valley

noun

  1. a series of rift valleys running from N to S, from the Jordan Valley in SW Asia to Mozambique in SE Africa.



Great Rift Valley

noun

  1. the most extensive rift in the earth's surface, extending from the Jordan valley in Syria to Mozambique; marked by a chain of steep-sided lakes, volcanoes, and escarpments

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Fourteen schoolchildren were among the dozens of Kenyans killed when two mudslides struck the Great Rift Valley area, according to the country's education ministry.

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Coffee plants have long been thought to have developed in Ethiopia, but varieties that the team collected around the Great Rift Valley, which stretches from Southeast Africa to Asia, displayed a clear geographic split.

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Some believed the trend was tied to the complex geology and groundwater hydrology of the Great Rift Valley, a series of faults and ridges stretching 7000 kilometers from Lebanon across eastern Africa to Mozambique.

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Kabarak is in Nakuru, in the Great Rift Valley about 90 miles or so from Nairobi.

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On Saturday, Scholz will visit Africa's biggest geothermal plant, at Lake Naivasha, in the geologically active Great Rift Valley, which is key to Kenya's plans for producing green hydrogen.

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