Sentences with phrase «rift valley stretching»

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.

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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).

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

Said by Hemingway to be the «loveliest (he has seen) in Africa», Lake Manyara is now a designated national park stretching for 50 km along the base of the high Rift Valley escarpment between Ngorongoro and Tarangire.