Sentences with phrase «of rift valley»

Sells describes Botswana as a terrain «where the last contours of the Rift Valley shift downwards, tilting ever so slightly, to bring the rains from the highlands of Angola, in the form of an annual flood into the Kalahari sands.

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Surrounded by hot springs, geysers and the steep escarpment of the Rift Valley with its volcanic outcrops, the natural setting of the lakes provides an exceptional experience of nature.

The natural setting of all three lakes surrounded by the steep escarpment of the Rift Valley and associated volcanic features provides an exceptional experience of nature.

Activity along the eastern branch of the rift valley, running along Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania, became evident when the large crack suddenly appeared in south - western Kenya.

In addition to speciation, a second major process that begins during this period is the episodic migration of hominins out of the Rift Valley and into Eurasia.

Eventually, it will rupture, leading to the formation of a rift valley.

The affects of the Rift Valley formation on the local climate was dramatic.

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.

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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?

Workers progressed across the 29 - mile Rift through volcanic rock and over steam vents on the valley floor, and then descended from a summit of over 8,000 feet to Lake Victoria in the valley below — a feat requiring 11,845 running feet of viaducts, some up to 881 feet long and more than 110 feet above the earth.

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

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.

[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.

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.

The formation of the rift fragmented the topography, creating mountains, deep valleys and lakes.

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.

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

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Researchers have long wondered if other upright walking species shared the Rift Valley of Africa with Lucy, particularly after they discovered that several types of hominins were alive at the same time after A. afarensis disappeared 3 million years ago.

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

Another fresh set of fossils from the northern Rift Valley, in Ethiopia, has only added to the confusion.

Now, experts have discovered one of the world's largest helium fields in the Tanzanian Rift Valley — this time, on purpose.

Fractionation of peralkaline silicic magmas: The greater olkaria volcanic complex, Kenya Rift Valley

Here we report the discovery of an isolated upper molar (#Ish25) from the Western Rift Valley site of Ishango in Central Africa in a derived context, overlying beds dated to between ca. 2.6 to 2.0 Ma.

The topography of East Africa completely changed: from a homogeneous flat region covered in moist forest, to a mountainous landscape with plateaus and deep rift valleys, where vegetation varied from cloud forest to desert scrub.

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.

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