Sentences with phrase «marineris rift valley»

Perth - based minerals explorer Rift Valley Resources has signed a deal to wholly acquire the Mtemi Resources Group of Companies after completing a $ 4 million capital raising.

Did another in Kenya's Rift Valley region pay dowry with bitcoin instead of cash and cows?

The Rift Valley that cuts the continent in two had to be sewn together by tracks, clips and clamps.

We have opted that the family relocate permanently from Nakuru because we anticipate that from now on it will be a hostile environment for the luos because most kikuyus who have been displaced from other parts of Rift Valley have moved there and they really hate luos.

They were in a group of Luos moving from the Rift Valley to Western Kenya which is Ancestral home for the Luos.

Out of Africa have come generations of dominant runners, forged by the rigors and customs of Kenya's Great Rift Valley

Kipketer, 26, whose odyssey from a farm in the Great Rift Valley to an apartment in Copenhagen has been as challenging as any race, broke track's oldest world record in an Olympic event at the Weltklasse meet in Zurich on Aug. 13, proving that whatever his country, he belongs among his sport's alltime best.

Kenyatta's strongholds are in central Kenya and the Rift Valley.

Interestingly, Odinga's ability to negotiate with other groups recently surprised and alarmed G7 politicians when he met with elders of the Rift Valley, bypassing Ruto to ask forgiveness from Rift Valley elders for any previous wrongdoing.

Moi was a master of exploiting fault lines in Kenyan politics, as highlighted by the strong - arm tactics of Youth For KANU ’92 in the Rift Valley, which helped him record 67 % in the province in the 1992 presidential elections.

[xi] See Too, T., «PM changes tack in an attempt to woo Rift Valley», Standard (08/11/12).

[x] For presidential candidate Odinga, this is part of a long campaign strategy that seeks to unhinge Kenyatta's national appeal, be it on the coast, in the Rift Valley, or, in this case, in Kenyatta's backyard.

What's more, inter-ethnic fighting over land in the Rift Valley and opportunistic criminalities by gangs in Nairobi were evident in the violence in Kenya.

Zipkin contrasts working with specular hematite — a heavy, glittery rock that's deep purple - red and has a high iron content — with material much lighter in both color and iron content from Kenya's volcanic Rift Valley: «They're both ochre, but elementally and chemically they are radically different.»

Set just north of Thingvallavatn, Iceland's largest lake, the park lies in a rift valley formed where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet.

Just as paleontologists hunt for fossils in isolated caves and dry rift valleys, cosmologists have identified relatively untarnished parts of the universe where atomic nuclei have remained largely undisturbed since the earliest times.

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).

Most species of cichlid live in three lakes in Africa's Great Rift Valley.

«The Rift Valley is the bread basket of Ethiopia, so a major earthquake or volcano would have a big effect,» says Cindy Ebinger of the Royal Holloway University, London, also an EAGLE participant.

For instance, what works for Rift Valley Fever can then be applied to Heartland virus, which is in the same family, and a vaccine for Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus can be expanded to Porcine Delta Corona virus.

The company's initial vaccine formulation targets Rift Valley Fever, found in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

Rotorua draws tourists to its famous hot springs, but for visitors who prefer science to spas, the nearby volcanic rift valley Waimangu (www.waimangu.co.nz) is a must.

How the giant feature was formed, itself one small stretch of the 4000 - kilometer - long Valles Marineris rift valley, remains a mystery.

In Sudan, outbreak of Rift Valley fever is a large and recurring health problem.

«With these results, we can add miscarriage to the list of known complications from Rift Valley fever.

«In parts of Africa where there are Rift valley fever outbreaks, miscarriages in humans have until now never been linked to this particular viral infection,» says Magnus Evander, professor of Virology at Umeå University and co-author of the study.

Rift Valley fever usually produces mild, influenza - like symptoms in humans.

«Mosquito - borne Rift Valley fever virus causes miscarriage.»

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.

The mosquito - borne Rift Valley fever virus has been linked to miscarriage in humans.

The fact that Rift Valley fever could lead to miscarriage is very worrying since it could potentially spread to new continents, which would have very serious consequences,» adds Magnus Evander.

The Asian tiger mosquito — carrier of such diseases as dengue, yellow fever, Rift Valley fever, Chikungunya and Zika — appears to have vanished from Palmyra.

Its vertical blue line shows the rift valley that forms the bottom of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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.

The fossil therefore provides further evidence for a previously postulated hydrological connection between the eastern and western arms of the Rift Valley, which was subsequently severed as rifting progressed.

Iceland's hot rocks: In the middle of the spreading Atlantic is Iceland, a geological marvel with a rift valley, the original geyser and an energy supply that does not depend on burning carbon.

The work also sheds light on the environmental conditions that prevailed in the Rift Valley of East Africa in the Upper Miocene period, 9 - 10 million years ago.

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.

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

The recordings the instruments made of the reverberations of distant earthquakes from January 2010 to January 2012 were used to create maps of seismic velocities beneath the rift valley.

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

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

Australopithecines proliferated in the rift valleys of eastern Africa about 2.6 million to 4 million years ago.

Using assays developed at USAMRIID that detect the presence of IgM, an early protein produced by the body to ward off infection, the research team found evidence of dengue fever, West Nile, yellow fever, Rift Valley fever, chikungunya, Ebola, and Marburg viruses in the samples collected between 2006 and 2008.

«Geothermal energy, aluto volcano, and Ethiopia's rift valley.»

Archaeologists working in the Kenyan Rift Valley have discovered the oldest known stone tools in the world.

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.

The features are similar to rift valleys on Earth — regions where the crust is cooling, contracting, and ripping apart.

Previously called a «water tower» because it supplied water to the Rift Valley and Lake Victoria, the forest region has dried up; in 2009 the rainy season — from August to November — saw no rain, and since then precipitation has been modest.

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.