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A section of the western wall of the Gregory Rift (a part of the eastern branch of the Africa's Great Rift Valley) above Lake Manyara,a shallow alkaline lake,which adjoins a national park of the same name. The escarpment drops several hundred feet in sheer cliffs and runs in a north-south straight line as far as the eye can see.
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A Samburu warrior gazes at the eastern scarp of Africa's Great Rift Valley at Losiolo,north of Maralal. From 8,000 feet the land tumbles away 3,000 feet into rugged country,the domain of nomadic pastoralists,before rising again 75 miles away. The views at Losiolo are the most spectacular in Kenya of the largest,longest and most conspicuous physical feature of its kind on earth.
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A Samburu warrior looks out across the eastern scarp of Africa's Great Rift Valley at Poro,Northern Kenya where the land drop precipitously 3,000 feet.
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A Samburu warrior gazes at the eastern scarp of Africa's Great Rift Valley at Losiolo,north of Maralal. From 8,000 feet the land tumbles away 3,000 feet into rugged country,the domain of nomadic pastoralists,before rising again 75 miles away. The views at Losiolo are the most spectacular in Kenya of the largest,longest and most conspicuous physical feature of its kind on earth.
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Maasai men ride camels in the dry bush country at Olorgasailie,situated between Nairobi and Lake Magadi.
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Fine farming country in the Tugen Hills, a massive fault block standing in the middle of the Gregory Rift.The Gregory Rift, an important section of the Eastern arm of Africas Great Rift Valley running through Kenya and Northern Tanzania, was named after Professor Gregory who identified the geological formation of the Rift, and coined the term Great Rift Valley.
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A section of the western wall of the Gregory Rift (a part of the eastern branch of the Africa's Great Rift Valley) above Lake Manyara,a shallow alkaline lake,which adjoins a national park of the same name. The escarpment drops several hundred feet in sheer cliffs and runs in a north-south straight line as far as the eye can see.
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A little distance offshore from the coast of Djibouti, the northern extent of Africas Great Rift Valley abuts a triple junction where the oceanic rifts of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden converge.This photograph shows an obvious crack in a huge lava ridge.Other than Iceland, Djibouti is the only country where scientists can observe the sea floor spreading on dry land as two plates move apart.
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A section of the eastern wall of the Great Rift Valley at Poro near Maralal.
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The impressive Canyon d'Adail_,known to the Afar people as Dimbia,is an intersection of rifts and land faulting,south of Ghoubbet el Kharäb.
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A section of the eastern wall of the Great Rift Valley at Poro near Maralal
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Kenya,Baringo. Part of the Laikipia Escarpment which forms the eastern extremity of Africa's Great Rift Valley in Central Kenya.
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Maasai men ride camels in the dry bush country at Olorgasailie,situated between Nairobi and Lake Magadi.
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