Sentences with phrase «rift valley formed»

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

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.

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.

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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.

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

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

This process is accompanied by surface manifestations along the rift valley in the form of volcanism and seismic activity.

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.