Sentences with phrase «african rift valley»

For example precession has been linked to the rise and fall of the African rift valley lakes and so may have even influenced the evolution of our ancestors.

Oh there were some times after: The African rift valley whose radiant heat spawned your kind and the subduction volcanoes around continental rims that gave saber tooth and mammoth like megafauna the edge.

Ntchisi Forest Lodge sits on the escarpment of the East African Rift Valley in some of Malawi's last remaining indigenous rainforest in an isolated spot near Lilongwe, Malawi's capital.

A Thousand Suns tells the story of the Gamo Highlands of the African Rift Valley and the unique worldview held by the people of the region.

The East African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000 km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, splitting the African plate into two unequal parts: the Somali and Nubian plates.

Let Her Rift With so much volcanic and tectonic activity going on there, the East African Rift Valley is a potent power source.

The development of the East African Rift valley fragmented the landscape and formed a large number of separate lake basins.

Lake Malawi is 600 km long, 35 km wide, and has a maximum depth of 700 m; it is the second largest and the southernmost great lake in the East African Rift Valley.

First, it was found in Chad, 1,500 miles from the East African Rift Valley, long the presumed center of hominid evolution.

A. africanus is closely related to Lucy and her kin (Australopithecus afarensis), the gracile hominids found in the East African Rift Valley at Hadar, at Laetoli in Tanzania and elsewhere.

He also leads excavations in the East African Rift Valley and codirects projects in China that compare early human behavior and environments in eastern Africa with those in eastern Asia.

It lived in what is now the central Afar region of the East African Rift Valley around 3.3 million years ago, only 35 kilometres north of known Australopithecus afarensis sites.

Back then, the mountain range along the East African Rift Valley was sinking, creating vast wetlands and lakes, such as the paleo lake Makgadikgadi.

It was discovered by Reichenbacher and her coworkers in Kenya's Tugen Hills, in the eastern arm of the East African Rift Valley, but Lake Tanganyika — in which its closest relatives now live — is located in the Valley's western branch.

Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching of the Earth's crust and where the crust grows thin (called «non-hotspot intraplate volcanism»), such as in the African Rift Valley or the European Rhine Graben with its Eifel volcanoes).

Not exact matches

There is currently an outbreak in Niger and recently a Chinese man, who had visited the African Continent, got sick with Rift Valley fever upon returning to China.

Also called the Rift Valley Lakes and the East African Lakes.

In the East African system, a series of aligned rift valleys separated from each other by large bounding faults can be clearly seen from space.

Paper: Bock, F. et al. (2014): Mitochondrial sequences reveal a clear separation between Angolan and South African giraffe along a cryptic rift valley - BMC Evolutionary Biology, DOI: 10.1186 / s12862 -014-0219-7 http://tinyurl.com/kj2zgey

The property makes a critical contribution to the conservation of the natural values within the Great Rift Valley, as an integral part of the most important route of the African - Eurasian flyway system where billions of birds are found to travel from northern breeding grounds to African wintering places.

Many never before on view, the objects were created by 19th and 20th century artists who lived in cattle herding groups from the Great Rift Valley to the horn of the African continent.

German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), «African Rift Geothermal Facility (ARGeo),» at www.bgr.de/geotherm/projects/argeo.html, viewed 22 April 2009; U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), «Hot Prospect — Geothermal Electricity Set for Rift Valley Lift - Off in 2009,» press release (Nairobi: 9 December 2008); Bertani, op.

After meeting with some initial success in Kenya, where, over the past 3 years, sites have been drilled to identify local hotspots, the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), along with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), will fund a new entity — the African Rift Geothermal Development Facility (ARGeo)-- to tap into the Rift Valley's vast, unexplored geothermal potential, according to SciDev.Net's Laura Garca.

UN Supported African Enterprise to Set Up Major Geothermal Facility in East Africa's Rift Valley