Sentence examples for vast rift from inspiring English sources

Fisher is standing firm, leaving a vast rift that is consuming the union's attention just as the N.B.A. is wrapping up a surprisingly successful regular season after the 149-day lockout.

The marathon march began in the northern Kenyan town of Lodwar in the volatile Turkana region, and will head south for 40 kilometres every day through the vast Rift Valley to Lake Bogoria.

Then, suddenly, this dusty track that sits on the edge of the clouds, the vast Rift Valley spread out far below, becomes host to some of the most fiercely competitive racing you could possibly hope to see anywhere in the world.

This is a vast rift valley, just like the East African rift valley, but occupied by the largest outlet glacier in Antarctica.

The two sections are separated by the vast Eastern Rift Valley, which cuts across Ethiopia from southwest to northeast.

To the north of the Rift are vast areas covered by red desert soils, mainly sandy loams.

Media speculation said his resignation was caused by a family rift over the vast £3.4bn fortune.

Oceanic crust is created along oceanic ridges or rift areas, which are vast undersea mountain ranges such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Mid-Atlantic Ridge

The eastern plateau forelands, located just east of the Rift highlands, constitute a vast plateau of ancient rocks gently sloping to the coastal plain.

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukNESTLED between the two arms of east Africa's Great Rift Valley sits a vast plain on which roams an extraordinarily rich diversity of life.

So this vast region, stretching down through the Rift Valley and its lakes that punctuate the continent from Uganda down to Zambia in the south, still ranks among Africa's poorest and least visited.Burundi has some advantages.