Great Rift Valley
Great Rift Valley. By: Kelly Lane. Facts About the Great Rift Valley. Latitude- 5(5 degrees 0’ 0 N) Longitude- 37(37 degrees 0’0 E) The Great Rift Valley started forming about 35 million years ago It was formed when the African and Arabian plates began pulling away from each other
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Great Rift Valley By: Kelly Lane
Facts About the Great Rift Valley Latitude- 5(5 degrees 0’ 0 N) Longitude- 37(37 degrees 0’0 E) • The Great Rift Valley started forming about 35 million years ago • It was formed when the African and Arabian plates began pulling away from each other • Plate Boundary- divergent • Fault- transform • Stress- tension
Topographic Map • The darker color in the ocean is the deepest water and the lighter color is the more shallow waters • The green areas are places with low elevation followed by yellow, orange and finally red indicating increasing elevation Highest Elevation- 6,000 ft. (above sea level in Kenya) Lowest Elevation- 1,300 ft. (below sea level near the Dead Sea) Steepest Slopes- Near Kenya where active volcanoes are.
Other Facts and Graphics • Other features near The Great Rift Valley include Mount Kenya, the Congo River Basin, Ethiopian Highlands and the Nile River • The Great Rift Valley is nearly 4,000 miles long and stretches from the Red Sea area to the country of Mozambique
