Sentence examples for rift system from inspiring English sources

The East African Rift System constitutes the most striking and distinctive relief feature of the continent.

The East African Rift System intersects eastern Africa, running from north to south.

Rift volcanoes in continental locations such as the East African Rift System are more complex.

This rift system stretches southward from the Red Sea Gulf of Aden to Lake Victoria.

The Rift Valley is part of the larger East African Rift System.

If this is a typical number for a rift system, there may be several thousand potentially active volcanoes along the oceanic ridges that are the surface expressions of the world rift system.

Most of the lakes in the rift system are deep and fjordlike, some with their floors well below sea level.

Younger rifts in the north, part of the East African Rift System, are occupied by Lakes Mweru and Tanganyika.

Lake Victoria, which ranks as the world's second largest freshwater lake, is not part of the Rift System.

Alkaline rocks, such as those found in the East African Rift System, occur as well but are less abundant.

Taking these particular characteristics into account, we interpreted the Atuel depocenter as an oblique rift system.