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    The Gregory Rift (Ufa la Gregori, in Swahili) is the eastern branch of the East African Rift fracture system. The rift is being caused by the separation...
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    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...
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    The East African Rift (EAR) or East African Rift System (EARS) is an active continental rift zone in East Africa. The EAR began developing around the...
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    the Kenyan Rift Valley lakes, while most of the Central African Rift Valley lakes lie in the Western Rift. This area includes the Gregory Rift in Kenya...
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  • African Rift that runs southwest through Ethiopia Great Rift Valley, Kenya, part of the Gregory Rift that runs north to south through Kenya Rift valley...
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    and Congo basins diverge and border several endorheic basins in the Gregory Rift, of which the largest are Lake Eyasi in the north and Lake Rukwa in the...
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    SSW, the East African Rift is composed of a western and an eastern branch. The eastern branch (sometimes called the Gregory Rift) is characterized by high...
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    Ol Doinyo Lengai (category Volcanoes of the Great Rift Valley)
    Lengai is part of the Gregory Rift, which is part of the active East African Rift. The East African Rift is a continental rift extending from eastern...
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    Africa. The Gregory Rift in the Great Rift Valley is named in his honour. Gregory was born in Bow, London, the only son of a John James Gregory, a wool merchant...
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    Lake Natron (category Saline lakes of the Great Rift Valley)
    Tanzania at the border with Kenya. It is in the Gregory Rift, which is the eastern branch of the East African Rift. The lake is within the Lake Natron Basin...
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    A rift valley is a linear shaped lowland between several highlands or mountain ranges produced by the action of a geologic rift. Rifts are formed as a...
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    the EARS (known as The Gregory Rift) running through its middle, and contains most of what we historically saw as the Great Rift valley. Lake Victoria...
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    volcanoes within the Eyasi half-graben, the eastern boundary marked by the Gregory Rift Western Escarpment. The Lake Eyasi escarpment bounds the half-graben...
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    Mount Kilimanjaro (category Volcanoes of the Great Rift Valley)
    Kilimajaro. Retrieved 25 February 2024. John Barry Dawson (2008). The Gregory Rift Valley and Neogene-recent Volcanoes of Northern Tanzania. Geological...
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    Valley (section Rift)
    but also occur in tropical and arid regions. Rift valleys, such as the Albertine Rift and Gregory Rift are formed by the expansion of the Earth's crust...
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    Turkana Basin (category Rifts and grabens)
    basin with no outflow centered around the north-southwards directed Gregory Rift system in Kenya and southern Ethiopia. The deepest point of the basin...
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    (Thomas, 1912), the eastern white-bearded wildebeest, is found in the Gregory Rift Valley (south of the equator). Its range extends from northern Tanzania...
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    of Central/ Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania: Geotourism of the Gregory Rift Valley, Active Volcanism and Regional Plateaus. Springer. pp. 69–79....
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    of the East African Rift. The southern end of the Gregory Rift Valley terminates against the craton. The volcanic area of this rift covers the surface...
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    Highlands, near to the western escarpment of the Gregory rift, which is part of the East African Rift system's eastern branch. It is made up of interlayered...
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    Sagittarius Star Cloud Serpens-Aquila Rift, a sub-feature of the Great Rift Small Sagittarius Star Cloud Green, Gregory M; Schlafly, Edward F; Finkbeiner...
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  • Korosi is a shield volcano located in the Gregory Rift at the northern end of Lake Baringo, Kenya. List of volcanoes in Kenya "Korosi". Global Volcanism...
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    distance above where it empties into Lake Turkana, one of the lakes of the Gregory Rift. The Spectrum Guide to Ethiopia describes it as a popular site for white-water...
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    Suguta Valley (category Great Rift Valley)
    from the western wall. The Suguta Valley lies along the axis of the Gregory Rift, which has been faulting in this area since the Pliocene along a belt...
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    Tanzania) K. e. defassa (defassa waterbuck) group: Found west of the Gregory Rift, ranging from Ethiopia west to Senegal and south to Zambia. Includes...
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    the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority. DAWSON , J. B. 2008. The Gregory Rift Valley and Neogene –Recent Volcanoes of Northern Tanzania. Geological...
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  • Southern Eastern Rift is a freshwater ecoregion in Kenya and Tanzania. It occupies the southern end of the Eastern Rift Valley, or Gregory Rift, and includes...
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    Lake Elmenteita (category Saline lakes of the Great Rift Valley)
    Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018. Scoon, Roger N. (2018), "Lakes of the Gregory Rift Valley: Baringo, Bogoria, Nakuru, Elmenteita, Magadi, Manyara and Eyasi"...
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    West of those mountains is the Gregory Rift, which is the eastern arm of the Great Rift Valley. On the floor of the rift are a number of large salt lakes...
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  • Mount Silali is a dormant volcano in the Gregory Rift Valley, near Kapedo, Kenya. Silali is south of the Suguta Valley, which reaches northward to Lake...
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