Great African Rift Valley Case Study

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2 min readJan 13, 2021
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  • The Great African Rift Valley A2 unit four case study The East African Rift Valley Q1 Tectonics The Great African Rift Valley is the south branch of the Afar Triangle. the only one remaining which has not yet been filled by the sea.
  • Click here for Terrain View. The 6000 km- (3700 mi) long Great Rift Valley is a continuous geologic valley that begins in the Middle East and ends in southeastern Africa. If the Rift Valley was in. . .
  • The Great Rift Valley is the most extensive rift on the Earth’s surface. For 30 million years. enormous plates under­ neath Africa have been pulling apart. Large earthquakes have rumbled across the land. causing huge chunks of the Earth’s crust to collapse. the Dead Sea. It …
  • Case study-East Africa’s Great Rift Valley study guide by RiaEricaWalker includes 6 questions covering vocabulary. terms and more. Quizlet flashcards. …
  • Jordan’s ReflectionsI felt that this project was very purposeful as it gives usspecific case studies that enable us to understand theconcepts we learnt in class and see them in action in reallife. It is really an eye opener as before the project. I hadno idea what was the African Rift Valley and aftercompleting the project. I was able to link the separation ofcontinental plates learnt in . . .
  • Volcanism and seismicity along East African Rift Valley. The East African Rift Zone includes many active as well as dormant volcanoes. Mount Kilimanjaro (it has three volcanic cones). is a dormant stratovolcano in Tanzania. Mount Kenya is an extinct stratovolcano. Although most of these mountains lie outside of the rift valley. the EAR created . . .
  • The African Great Lakes (Swahili: Maziwa Makuu) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift. They include Lake Victoria. the second-largest fresh water lake in the world by area. Lake Tanganyika. the world’s second-largest freshwater lake by volume and depth. and Lake Malawi. the world’s eighth-largest fresh water lake by area.
  • Several Case Studies of Fracture Analysis: The East African Rift. Using Landsat and SPOT images. this site includes both photos and explanations of the crustal extension occurring in the Rift Valley region. The Alid Page: USGS/ Eritrean Study of Alid Volcanic Center. Danakil Depression. Eritrea. northeast Africa. Maps of Alid Volcanic Center — Including geologic cross-sections. Photos of …
  • In summary. the article by James Wood and Alex Guth entitled “East Africa’s Great Rift Valley: A Complex Rift System” provides information about the East Africa Rift Systems. The geology of the rift system was described. Also. the formation of the said rift system was discussed by providing a model supporting the geology of the rift system.

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