These lakes are found on the floor of the Great Rift Valley where major tectonic and/or volcanic events have shaped a distinctive landscape. Some of the world's greatest diversities and concentrations ...

Series investigating the geological forces which shaped East Africa's Great Rift Valley and which make it one of the world's most wildlife-rich landscapes ...

It lies within the enormous Great Rift Valley, a 5,500km long fault line that runs from the Red Sea through Kenya and Tanzania and into Mozambique. The Mara sits at an average altitude of 1500m.

After World War I, Germany was suffering from ... In some places the canyon, called the Great Global Rift, came very close to land. The rift appeared to be breaks in the earth's crust, but ...