Definition of Great Rift Valley

1. Noun. ( geology) a depression in southwestern Asia and eastern Africa; extends from the valley of the Jordan River to Mozambique; marked by geological faults.

Category relationships: Geology
Group relationships: Africa, Asia
Generic synonyms: Rift Valley

Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Rift Valley

Great Lent
Great Mendenhall Glacier
Great Mother
Great Nebula in Andromeda
Great North Road
Great Plains
Great Plains of North America
Great Pox
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Great Pyramid
Great Pyramid at Giza
Great Pyramid of Giza
Great Pyrenees
Great Red Spot
Great Revolt
Great Rift Valley (current term)
Great Russian
Great Salt Lake
Great Sandy Desert
Great Satan
Great Seal
Great Seal of the United States
Great Sky River
Great Slave Lake
Great Smoky Mountains
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Great Turk
Great Victoria Desert
Great Wall

Literary usage of Great Rift Valley

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Uganda for a Holiday by Frederick Treves (1910)
"CHAPTER XVI THE Great Rift Valley BEYOND Kikuyu the way is through an enchanting forest, more wonderful and more beautiful than any alley of green the train ..."

2. The Foundation of British East Africa by John Walter Gregory (1901)
"The lava plains are abruptly terminated by the Great Rift Valley, the most remarkable feature ... The eastern, known as the Erythrean, or Great Rift Valley, ..."

3. Kenya by Eva Ambros (1999)
"SUDAN ETHIOPIA TANZANIA The massive Great Rift Valley is a fault running on a ... LAKES IN THE Great Rift Valley LAKE NAIVASHA LAKE ELMENTEITA LAKE NAKURU ..."

4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"Those of the escarpment region and the great rift valley are specially interesting. (1) Tanga, German East Africa; (2) Principal street in ..."

5. Australasia by Henry Rees (1907)
"Pacific type, in which the mountains and the trend of the 1 The term "rift valley," which was proposed in The Great Rift Valley (1896, pp. ..."

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