Rift Valley - National Geographic Society
2024年1月4日 · The most famous rift lakes in the world may be the series of narrow, deep rift valleys in the East African Rift known simply as the Rift Valley lakes. The Rift Valley lakes, stretching from Ethiopia to Malawi, are sites of amazing biodiversity.
Oh no! This page was snatched by this mandrill. - Education
This endangered mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) was photographed by National Geographic Photographer Joel Sartore on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, in his ambitious project to document every species in captivity—inspiring people not just to care, but also to help protect these animals for future generations. Before drills disappear, like this webpage has, learn how …
Africa: Physical Geography - Education
2024年7月22日 · African Great Lakes The Great Lakes are located in ten countries that surround the Great Rift Valley: Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. As the African continent separated from Saudi Arabia, large, deep cracks were created in the Earth’s surface.
Africa Is Rifting Apart, But This ‘Crack’ in Kenya Doesn’t Have …
2018年4月9日 · The African plate, sometimes called the Nubian plate, carries most of the continent, while the smaller Somali plate carries the Horn of Africa. If geologists and seismologists agree that the Great Rift Valley is tearing Africa apart (and they do!), and that Kenya is right in the middle of this rift (and it is!) … why do they doubt the big ...
Continental Drift - Education
2023年10月19日 · Rift valleys are sites where a continental landmass is ripping itself apart. Africa, for example, will eventually split along the Great Rift Valley system. What is now a single continent will emerge as two—one on the African plate and the other on the smaller Somali plate.
In Their Footsteps: Human Migration Out of Africa - Education
2024年2月9日 · Experts suggest that droughts in Africa led to starvation, and humans were driven to near extinction before they ever had a chance to explore the world. A climate shift and greening in the Middle East probably helped to draw the first humans out of Africa.
Nov 24, 1974 CE: 'Lucy' Discovered in Africa - National Geographic …
Nov 24, 1974 CE: 'Lucy' Discovered in Africa On November 24, 1974, fossils of one of the oldest known human ancestors, an Australopithecus afarensis specimen nicknamed “Lucy,” were discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia.
Plate Tectonics and Volcanic Activity - Education
2024年4月29日 · The East African Rift is an example of a single tectonic plate being ripped in two. Along the Horn of Africa, the African plate is tearing itself into what is sometimes called the Nubian plate (to the west, including most of the current African plate) and the Somali plate (to the east, including the Horn of Africa and the western Indian Ocean ...
The Great Lakes are located in nine countries that surround the Great Rift Valley. As the African continent separated from Saudi Arabia, large, deep cracks were created in the Earths surface.
Explorer Home - National Geographic Society
2016年9月5日 · McGlue's current areas of interest include the East African Rift Valley in Tanzania and Zambia, the Pantanal wetlands and lower Amazon River of Brazil, the eastern Sierra Nevada (C.A.), the Grand Teton (W.Y.) and the Iowa Great Lakes.