The Great Rift Valley is a series of contiguous geographic depressions, approximately 6,000 or 7,000 kilometres in total length, the definition varying between sources, that runs from the southern Turkish Hatay Province in Asia, through the Red Sea, to Mozambique in Southeast Africa. While the name continues in some usages, it is rarely used in …
The Great Rift Valley is a series of contiguous geographic depressions, approximately 6,000 or 7,000 kilometres in total length, the definition varying between sources, that runs from the southern Turkish Hatay Province in Asia, through the Red Sea, to Mozambique in Southeast Africa. While the name continues in some usages, it is rarely used in geology as it is considered an imprecise merging of separate though related rift and fault systems.
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