Gregory Rift
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gregory-rift-230-1162984
title:
Gregory Rift
text:
The Gregory Rift is the eastern branch of the East African Rift fracture system. The rift is being caused by the separation of the Somali Plate from the Nubian Plate, driven by a thermal plume. Although the term is sometimes used in the narrow sense of the Kenyan Rift, the larger definition of the Gregory Rift is the set of faults and grabens extending southward from the Gulf of Aden through Ethiopia and Kenya into Northern Tanzania, passing over the local uplifts of the Ethiopian and Kenyan dom
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original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Rift
date created:
2011-12-27T14:12:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T14:34:20Z
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