Mr. M Posted December 20, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 743 Topics Per Day: 1.36 Content Count: 3,893 Content Per Day: 7.10 Reputation: 1,796 Days Won: 12 Joined: 10/28/2022 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/18/1956 Share Posted December 20, 2023 The Great Rift Valley (Bonde la ufa, in Swahili) is a series of contiguous geographic trenches, approximately 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) in total length, that runs from Lebanon in Asia to Mozambique in Southeast Africa.[1] While the name continues in some usages, it is rarely used in geology as it is considered an imprecise merging of separate though related rift and fault systems. This valley extends northward for 5,950 km through the eastern part of Africa, through the Red Sea, and into Western Asia. Several deep, elongated lakes, called ribbon lakes, exist on the floor of this rift valley: Lake Malawi and Lake Tanganyika are examples of such lakes. The region has a unique ecosystem and contains a number of Africa's wildlife parks. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Great_rift_valley.jpg/165px-Great_rift_valley.jpg The Great Rift Valley, Location: Uganda. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Great_Rift_Valley_map-en.svg/96px-Great_Rift_Valley_map-en.svg.png Map of the Great Rift Valley. English version. The background map and the locator map are raster images embedded into the SVG file. The term Great Rift Valley is most often used to refer to the valley of the East African Rift, the divergent plate boundary which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward through eastern Africa, and is in the process of splitting the African Plate into two new and separate plates. Geologists generally refer to these evolving plates as the Nubian Plate and the Somali Plate. https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/africa/the-great-rift-africa-s-splitting-plates-could-give-birth-to-a-new-ocean-but-with-consequences-88274 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Rift_Valley 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. M Posted December 20, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 743 Topics Per Day: 1.36 Content Count: 3,893 Content Per Day: 7.10 Reputation: 1,796 Days Won: 12 Joined: 10/28/2022 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/18/1956 Author Share Posted December 20, 2023 https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/africa-splitting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. M Posted December 20, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 743 Topics Per Day: 1.36 Content Count: 3,893 Content Per Day: 7.10 Reputation: 1,796 Days Won: 12 Joined: 10/28/2022 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/18/1956 Author Share Posted December 20, 2023 https://www.iflscience.com/africa-is-splitting-into-two-and-new-data-is-uncovering-how-70302#:~:text=The East African Rift System (EARS) runs downward through Ethiopia,Tanzania%2C Malawi%2C and Mozambique.&text=Africa is slowly but,largest rifts in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. M Posted December 20, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 743 Topics Per Day: 1.36 Content Count: 3,893 Content Per Day: 7.10 Reputation: 1,796 Days Won: 12 Joined: 10/28/2022 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/18/1956 Author Share Posted December 20, 2023 https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/is-africa-splitting-into-two-continents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Barbarian Posted December 22, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 27 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 5,051 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 969 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/20/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted December 22, 2023 This has been going on for a long time. Madagascar was once part of the African continent. It split away before the Hominoidea evolved. So lemurs there, but no apes or monkeys. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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