[DOC] [TLE] East African Rift - Wikipedia [PAR] The East African Rift (EAR) is an active continental rift zone in East Africa. The 
EAR began developing around the onset of the Miocene, 2225 million years 
ago. In the past, it was considered to be part of a larger Great Rift Valley that 
extended north to Asia ... To the north of the Afar Triple Junction, the rift follows 
one of two paths: west... [DOC] [TLE] Jordan Rift Valley - Wikipedia [PAR] The Jordan Rift Valley is an elongated depression located in modern-day Israel, 
Jordan, and ... One million years later, the land between the Mediterranean and 
the Jordan Rift ... of present-day movement of the Arabian Plate relative to the 
Africa Plate. It has also been proposed that the fault zone is a rift system that is an
... [DOC] [TLE] Great Rift Valley, Kenya - Wikipedia [PAR] The Great Rift Valley is part of an intra-continental ridge system that runs through 
Kenya from north to south. It is part of the Gregory Rift, the eastern branch of the 
East African Rift, which ... Type, Natural ... lies south of Lake Naivasha. In the 
early 1900s, Mount Longonot erupted, and ash can still be felt around Hell's Gate
. [DOC] [TLE] rift valley | landform | Britannica.com [PAR] Rift valley, any elongated trough formed by the subsidence of a segment of the 
Earth's ... At their margins, the walls of the valleys may rise hundreds of metres. ... 
In terms of the theory of plate tectonics, they occur in divergence zones, belts 
where two .... one of the larger continuous masses of land, namely, Asia, Africa, 
North... [DOC] [TLE] Fault Troughs - JStor [PAR] Fault troughs may be classed as superficial or profound. Superficial fault troughs 
... lustrations are given of the different types of fault troughs. ... valley formed by 
trough faulting, and it has come into wide use. ... zone and by other great faults. 
..... Elongated ..... trough faulting of East Africa and of Asia Minor is continuous 
and. [DOC] [TLE] science - Earth and Environmental Sciences [PAR] coast of North America, a great apron ... in the mantle at one of t ... valley 
associated with the seismic belt ... he rise in re- wrench (tear) faults part of the 
rise ... Scripps Institution of Oceanography sounding and sampling lines in the 
eastern Pacific. 1738 ..... The band of high heat flow, like the crest of the rise, 
appears to pass. [DOC] [TLE] AN OVERVIEW OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF AFRICA [PAR] The Sahara Desert, the largest of its kind anywhere in the world, is over 10.4 
million ... metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks of great hardness (collectively 
known as ... are the result of recent volcanic activities (e.g east African mountains 
like the ... Rift Valley Lakes: The valley system has been occupied by elongated 
lakes... [DOC] [TLE] Mountains facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] As a result, Earth's interior may manifest faults, or fractures in rocks, as well as ... 
The second type of mountain belt occurs when continental plates converge or 
collide. When continental plates converge, one plate may "try" to subduct the 
other, but .... in central Asia; the Alps and Urals in Europe; the Atlas Mountains in 
Africa;... [DOC] [TLE] Do you like playing hockey? Do you ski, snowboard or figure skate ... [PAR] Please return the Quest to school by Monday May 12th, 2014. ... Nationsonline.
org/one ... These continents are Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South 
America .... Loch Ness lies along a natural geographic fault line called the Great 
Glen Fault, an enormous ... A fjord is a deep, narrow and elongated sea or lake 
drain, with. [DOC] [TLE] 15. Volcanoes: Tectonic Setting and Impact on Society | Active ... [PAR] Since tectonic processes can be critical to many human activities, the Geophysics 
... Most volcanoes lie on or near two of the three principal types of boundaries ... 
form a subduction zone along which one plate descends beneath

Question: An elongated fault zone may be this type of "valley", like the "Great" one of Asia & Africa
Answer: Rift