East African Rift Valley Diagram. 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. The east african rift valley ear is a developing divergent plate boundary in east africa.
In what is an anti climax of a much hyped privatisation deal gone terribly wrong rvr will over the next 30 days hand over all concessioned assets to kenya railways kr ultimately marking the end of its troubled 11 years of operating. The great rift valley is a series of contiguous geographic trenches approximately 7000 kilometres in total length that runs from the beqaa valley in lebanon which is in asia to mozambique in southeast africa. This extension has formed a rift valley similar to the morphology of the one we see at the vale of eden albeit much younger.
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Rift valleys are blocks downthrows which have subsided between two lines of fault or simply downthrows between two upthrows. The rift was formed when the african plate started pulling itself apart divergence 20 30 million years agothe rift valley is thought to have been formed by a magma blister in the north near the surface after. The east african rift valley is one of the most famous rift valleys that is constantly forming. Nyiragongo and the shield volcano.