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unusual facts about rift valley



Dinosaur Cove

During the Early Cretaceous the location was a flood plain within a great rift valley that formed as Australia started to separate northward from Antarctica.

The First Grader

The British-produced film was shot on location in the Rift Valley in Kenya, despite earlier reports that it would be filmed in South Africa.


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Angorangora

Apart from the Rift Valley itself, the area has other important geographic features such as: the extinct volcanoes Mount Longonot and Mount Suswa and Lake Baringo, Lake Bogoria, Lake Magadi, Lake Nakuru, Lake Naivasha, the Suguta Valley, and Lake Turkana.

Arava

Arabah, a section of the Great Rift Valley between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba in Israel and Jordan.

Aravah

Arabah, a section of the Jordan Rift Valley on the border between Israel and Jordan, south of the Dead Sea and north of the Gulf of Aqaba.

Montes Alpes

The northwestern third of the range is separated from the remainder of the mountains by the Vallis Alpes, a wide rift valley that extends from a narrow cleft in the Montes Alpes to the northeast, reaching the edge of the Mare Frigoris.

Moses Arita

Arita was born and raised in Nakuru where he attended Mama Ngina Primary School, he then went to Manor High School in Rift Valley.

Operation Whitecoat

According to USAMRIID, the Whitecoat operation contributed to vaccines approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for yellow fever and hepatitis, and investigational drugs for Q fever, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, Rift Valley fever, and tularemia.

Silali

Mount Silali, a dormant volcano in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya