Sentences with phrase «great rift»

Another geothermal hot spot is the Great Rift Valley of Africa, which includes such countries as Kenya and Ethiopia.

Get some REAL rifting action in the Great Rift Valley.

72 Among the Great Rift countries in Africa — including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti — Kenya is the early leader.

Carbon Footprint Ltd have received endorsement from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for our reforestation efforts in The Great Rift Valley.

The white - bearded De Brazza's monkeys were found in the Great Rift Valley, a place they had never been spotted before, Richard Leakey, a prominent white Kenyan credited with ending the slaughter of the nation's elephants, told Reuters in Nairobi.

All trees that are planted are native to the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, and will be carefully planted and managed to live their natural lifespan and meet their biodiversity targets.

The Kikuyu escarpment forest with its great mixture of both large and small wildlife animals, birds and butterflies, has been the beautiful gateway to the Great Rift Valley until degradation trend struck.

However, seismic imaging has shown that mantle heat in this region may reach the ice sheet through a rift, that is, a fracture in Earth's crust such as appears in Africa's Great Rift Valley.

A fine example of this can be found in Janet Biggs's three channel installation, Afar, currently on show at New York's Cristin Tierney gallery, which offers viewers a brief visual sojourn to East Africa's Great Rift Valley — «the most unlivable place on earth.»

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.

Situated on the southern shores of Lake Naivasha, the smaller of the only two fresh water lakes in Kenya's Great Rift Valley.

This city is located on a plateau in the Great Rift Valley amidst the Serengeti Plains, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara, Oludvai Gorge, Tarangire National Park and Mount Kilimanjaro National Park.

Welcome to this unique lodge in its spectacular setting on the edge of the Mto Wa Mbu escarpment overlooking the Great Rift Valley and Lake Manyara.

Wildlife Experience Jules Verne Sightseeing Improved Itinerary UNESCO: Great Rift Valley No Single Supplement Solo Group Departure 7 Lunches and 6 Dinners Local Expert Guides Guaranteed Departure Small Group Size: 2 — 6

Nestled on the rim of the Great Rift Valley with stunning views over Lake Manyara, Mount Meru, and on a clear day, Mount Kilimanjaro, the lodge is set in lush green gardens, alive with birds.

Inside Lake Nakuru National Park in the Great Rift Valley.

Travel through the Great Rift Valley into Lake Nakuru National Park (3.5 hrs), stopping to view Thomson's falls en route.

Day 4 Travel through the Great Rift Valley into Lake Nakuru National Park (3.5 hrs), stopping to view Thomson's falls en route.

Take the Great Rift Lift elevator down the hillside to Lion Camp, where you can come face to face with an African lion and experience Cheetah Run to see just how fast the spotted cats can move.

Located high above the floor of Africa's Great Rift Valley, Angama Mara overlooks Kenya's Maasai Mara, considered by many as the loveliest game reserve on the continent.

This game and trout lodge lies where the last remnant of the Great Rift Valley forms an escarpment, separating highveld and lowveld from one another.

Tucked away at the foot of the scenic Oloololo escarpment (the rim of the Great Rift Valley) in Kenya's iconic Masai Mara National Reserve, is the classic and elegant & Beyond Bateleur Camp.

On the floor of the Great Rift Valley, surrounded by wooded and bushy grassland, lies the beautiful Lake Nakuru National Park, a bird watcher's paradise.

The Great Rift extends across almost the entire Snake River Plain.

Perched on the edge of the Great Rift Valley, Angama Mara overlooks Kenya's Maasai Mara game reserve

Kings Bowl Lava Field erupted during a single fissure eruption on the southern part of the Great Rift about 2,250 years ago.

This lava field is the largest of several large beds of lava that erupted from the 53 - mile (85 km) south - east to north - west trending Great Rift volcanic zone, [9] a line of weakness in the Earth's crust.

Africa is rife with luxury safari experiences, but Angama, with its 1,076 - square - foot suites entered through a butler's vestibule, glass - walled 180 - degree forever views over the Great Rift Valley, parquet floors, John Vogel furnishings and décor inspired by Maasai colors, textures and patterns, rises above the fray.

In the southwestern part of the country, the Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley is home to giraffes, kudu, cheetahs, lions, and black rhinos.

The successful candidates come from Pendjari National Park (on the World Heritage tentative list of Benin), Lake Bogoria National Park (a component of the Kenya Lake System inthe Great Rift Valley, Kenya), Mosi - oa - Tunya / Victoria Falls (Zambia), Sibiloi National Park (a component of the Lake Turkana National Park, Kenya), Lake Nakuru National Park (a component o fthe Kenya Lake System inthe Great Rift Valley, Kenya) and Sehlabatheb National Park (on the World Heritage tentative list of Lesotho).

Criterion (x): The Kenya Lake System is the single most important foraging site for the Lesser Flamingo in the world with about 1.5 million individuals moving from one lake to the other and provides the main nesting and breeding grounds for Great White Pelicans in the Great Rift Valley.

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.

The World Heritage Committee has inscribed the Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley (Kenya) and Australia's Ningaloo Coast on UNESCO's World Heritage List.

These lakes are found on the floor of the Great Rift Valley where major tectonic and / or volcanic events have shaped a distinctive landscape.

The Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley, a natural property of outstanding beauty, comprises three inter-linked relatively shallow lakes (Lake Bogoria, Lake Nakuru and Lake Elementaita) in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya and covers a total area of 32,034 hectares.

Criterion (vii): The Kenya Lake System presents an exceptional range of geological and biological processes of exceptional natural beauty, including falls, geysers, hot springs, open waters and marshes, forests and open grasslands concentrated in a relatively small area and set among the landscape backdrop of the Great Rift Valley.

With a small group, led by a local guide, we take a walk through the Great Rift Valley.

The park is also in the Great Rift Valley and in the south of Kenya.

You will travel to the Swiss Alps, Korea, Navajo, an abandoned factory in Missouri, the Holy Land, the Great Rift Valley, the schools of Cuba, the ocean waves, and the human subconscious - oh, and Disneyland.

Homo sapiens set out to discover the Earth some 60,000 years ago, traveling from Ethiopia's Great Rift Valley to the farthest tip of South America.

May 14, 2018 • A deep, wide gash has slashed across the Great Rift Valley floor in a geologically hot part of Kenya.

system of lakes in and around the Great Rift Valley: Lake Albert, Lake Edward, Lake Kivu, Lake Malawi, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Turkana, and Lake Victoria.

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Scientific drilling in the Great Rift Valley: The 2005 Lake Malawi Scientific Drilling Project — An overview of the past 145,000 years of climate variability in Southern Hemisphere East Africa

Uplift associated with the Great Rift Valley of East Africa and the environmental changes it produced have puzzled scientists for decades because the timing and starting elevation have been poorly constrained.

The new dinosaur is called Shingopana songwensis, derived from the Swahili term «shingopana» for «wide neck»; the fossils were discovered in the Songwe region of the Great Rift Valley in southwestern Tanzania.

A great rift valley formed as the ancient supercontinent Gondwana broke up and Australia separated from Antarctica.

[Zoe Muller, Population structure of giraffes is affected by management in the Great Rift Valley, Kenya, in PLOS One]

Nearly straight overhead, just where the Great Rift begins, flies Cygnus the Swan.

Working in Kenya's Great Rift Valley, she focused her attention on two neighboring sites: a national park with lots of lions, and a privately owned conservancy with no lions.