Rift Valley

In order of specificity, Rift Valley can refer to:

  • Rift valley in general
  • Great Rift Valley (geographical concept), a series of connected rifts from Madagascar to Syria
  • East African Rift, a system of rifts in East Africa
  • Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift
  • Great Rift Valley, Kenya, part of the eastern branch of the East African Rift
  • Great Rift Valley, Ethiopia, part of the eastern branch of the East African Rift
  • Rift Valley fever
  • Rift Valley Province, Kenya and border with Uganda

Famous quotes containing the word valley:

    “Ah! I have penetrated to those meadows on the morning of many a first spring day, jumping from hummock to hummock, from willow root to willow root, when the wild river valley and the woods were bathed in so pure and bright a light as would have waked the dead, if they had been slumbering in their graves, as some suppose. There needs no stronger proof of immortality. All things must live in such a light. O Death, where was thy sting? O Grave, where was thy victory, then?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)