Talk:Great Rift Valley

message: I don't think is specific enough
I'v heard of Jordan-Red Sea Rift or fault and of Great rift valley, separate entites for all i know. Maybe there's some neq evidence.
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I learned about the Great Rift at school in the 50's but I never knew it extended North past Ethiopia. The Salelite image makes me wonder if we knew that 50 years ago and how much of a role satelite imagery has played in defining this natural wonder. Anyone got any comments?
I certainly knew about it 50 years ago.  The fact that it ran north and included the Dead Sea area was being taught when I was at school in Kenya during the period 1955-60.  MWLittleGuy (talk) 18:25, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: I don't think

message: : The Rift Valley has been a rich source of anthropological discovery, especially in Piedmont
What Piedmont is this? --Joy [shallot] 13:44, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Piedmont? 

message: I would assume that the Danakil depression in Ethiopia and Eritrea is part of this geological complex. However, Wikipedia somehow omits any findable mention of this region.llywrch 06:44, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't know that is happening. Anybody with any information on how fast the above process is happening and approximate time of the flooding?  gathima 17:50, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Danakil Depression 

message: The specific geographical and cultural conditions of the Rift Valley have produced most of the world's best distance runners.  Does this fit with this article? ManfredLong 11:01, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What is the evidence that the great Ethiopian, Kenyan and Tanzanian long-distance runners come from the rift valley rather than, say, the mountainous regions of their countries?  Rexparry sydney 04:37, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Running 

message: The article lacks any information on the section from Lake Rukwa to the Zambezi, can anyone add this.  Rexparry sydney 04:39, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Southern Rift valley 

message: Why is there a photograph of the Jordan-Dead Sea graben when the article is about the Great Rift Valley and the Jordan-Dead Sea graben is not part of that, even though it is a result of the plate tectonic movement in the over-all area? --Bejnar (talk) 20:05, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: At the risk of stating the obvious, the article says that the Dead Sea area is part of the Great Rift Valley.  Dragons flight (talk) 20:12, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Whether or not the red sea, dead sea and all points north are part of the great rift system is beyond my geologic knowledge, but i think there is a consensus that the east african rift clearly is, so i wonder why both photographs show the northern rifts rather than east africa. There is a great photo of the east african rift at this website and i have sent the owner an email asking to use it in this article.68.105.141.114 (talk) 19:53, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The Jordan-Dead Sea graben photo - Why ?

message: I wish there were  a map outlining the specific rift valleys under discussion. I find the photos and the text confusing as I am not that familiar with the geology of that part of the world but would like to be. Sincerely, –Mattisse (Talk) 16:46, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: :"The name continues in some usages, although it is today considered geologically imprecise as it includes what are today regarded as separate, since 1869 due to the Suez Canal Company project, although related rift and fault systems" (emphasis added).
This is a hard sentence to read and decipher. If I understand it, the Suez project somehow split the valley in two, but that doesn't make sense to me. --Chriswaterguy talk 17:57, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Nor to me, I've removed the offending part of the sentence, I hope that it's a lot clearer now. Mikenorton (talk) 18:47, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear language 

message: What is the reference to Piedmont? The wikipedia article Piedmont doesn't mention this at all. Should this be removed as unsourced and unexplained nonsense? ~~  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dangle98 (talk • contribs) 03:27, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Piedmont?? 

message: No reason has been given for this merge, but I suppose that we need to go through the process, so I've started this discussion section and directed the merge tags on the two articles to it.
*Oppose The Great Rift Valley is a mainly archaic term as far as geology is concerned, whereas the East African Rift is the term normally used. If there is to be a merger it should be the other way around, but I think that there this enough historical usage of the the Great Rift Valley with its much greater geographical extent to justify a separate article. Mikenorton (talk) 23:51, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[East African Rift]] 

message: What are some features of this? 103.121.75.35 (talk) 03:58, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pls answer this someone