Sentences with phrase «rift valley lakes»

For example precession has been linked to the rise and fall of the African rift valley lakes and so may have even influenced the evolution of our ancestors.

He took (and is featured in) the pictures, drilled the cores, and has been studying these rift valley lakes for some time:

A traditional seven - night safari visiting Samburu, home to unique wildlife, followed by the Rift Valley Lakes where thousands of pink flamingoes often tint the horizon.

Day 2 Visit the crater lakes of Debre Zeit and Rift Valley Lakes of Ziway and Langano en route to Hawassa.

Kenya's peak season, when it's dry and hot and flamingoes flock to Kenya's Rift Valley lakes, is January - February — prices are high and accommodation booked well in advance.

The Rift Valley Lakes in Kenya include Lake Nakuru, Lake Naivasha, Lake Magadi and Lake Victoria.

Also called the Rift Valley Lakes and the East African Lakes.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 ValLake 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 Vallake 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.

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

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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.

The best - fit model requires both the regional and global records to explain what is occurring within the Rift valley as evinced by the collated lake record (Table 1).

Table of Contents 1 Lighting Out 2 The Mother of the World 3 Up and Down the Nile 4 The Dervishes of Omdurman 5 The Osama Road to Nubia 6 The Djibouti Line to Harar 7 The Longest Road in Africa 8 Figawi Safari on the Bandit Road 9 Rift Valley Days 10 Old Friends in Bat Valley 11 The MV Umoja Across Lake Victoria 12 The Bush Train to Dar es Salaam 13 The Kilimanjaro Express to Mbeya 14 Through the Outposts of the Plateau 15 The Back Road to Soche Hill School 16 River Safari to the Coast 17 Invading Drummond's Farm 18 The Bush Border Bus to South Africa 19 The Hominids of Johannesburg 20 The Wild Things at Mala Mala 21 Faith, Hope, and Charity on the Limpopo Line 22 The Trans - Karoo Express to Cape Town 23 Blue Train Blues

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 ValLake 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 Vallake to the other and provides the main nesting and breeding grounds for Great White Pelicans in the Great Rift Valley.

It 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.

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).

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.

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 Ngorongoro / Serengeti excursion takes us via the Masai town of Mtu Wa Mbu (Mosquito River) that lies adjacent to the Lake Manyara National Park and up the Rift Valley Escarpment to the higher lying village of Karatu.

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

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

Inside Lake Nakuru National Park in the Great Rift Valley.

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.

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.

Tarangire Treetops sits alone in the private game reserve bordering Tarangire National Park and the Masai Steppe amid rolling, baobab - studded hills, with views to Lake Manyara and the Rift Valley wall.

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.

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

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.

Traversing the Northern circuit normally include exploring the Spectacular Serengeti, Lake Manyara National Park, Tarangire National Park, the Ngorongoro crater (considered as the eight natural wonder of the World) which is the only existing unbroken caldera in the world and the stunning rift Valley escarpment.

Phytoplankton ecology of the great lakes in the rift valleys of Central Africa.

The long body of Lake Turkana drops down along the Rift Valley from the Ethiopian border, extending 249 kilometers from north to south and 44 km at its widest point with a depth of 30 meters.

Rock layers on the shore had already revealed that the lake has fluctuated in size, filling the entire Jordan Rift Valley during the last Ice Age.

The provincial capital of Kenya's Rift Valley, Nakuru is the location of Lake Nakuru, a part of the Lake Nakuru National Park and the home of the lake's famous inhabitaLake Nakuru, a part of the Lake Nakuru National Park and the home of the lake's famous inhabitaLake Nakuru National Park and the home of the lake's famous inhabitalake's famous inhabitants.