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The Southern Rift Valley lakes are like the Western Rift Valley lakes in that, with one exception, they are freshwater lakes. Lake Rukwa (about 5,670 square kilometres (2,190 sq mi) but quite variable) in Tanzania is the alkaline exception, lying south-east of Tanganyika, and has no outlet.
Magnetic potential map of the Reelfoot Rift The New Madrid seismic zone ( NMSZ ), sometimes called the New Madrid fault line (or fault zone or fault system ), is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes (earthquakes within a tectonic plate ) in the Southern and Midwestern United States , stretching to the southwest ...
This is a list of lakes and reservoirs in the U.S. state of Illinois. The lakes are ordered by their unique names, (i.e. Lake Smith or Smith Lake would both be listed under "S"). Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
The steep riverine landscape of both the Driftless Area proper and the surrounding Driftless-like region is the result of early glacial advances that forced preglacial rivers that flowed into the Great Lakes southward, causing them to carve a gorge across bedrock cuestas, [1] thereby forming the modern incised upper Mississippi River valley.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Lakes of the Great Rift Valley (8 C, 24 P) I. ... Salton Sea (1 C, 22 P) T. Lake Tahoe (5 C, 74 P) Pages in category ...
Devil's Kitchen Lake is an 810-acre (3.3 km 2) reservoir in southern Illinois, created by the damming of Grassy Creek, a tributary of Crab Orchard Lake and the Big Muddy River. Most of the lake is located in Williamson County, southwest of Marion, Illinois. The lake is accessible from Interstate 57.
The African Great Lakes system, (in blue) Map of larger region including the East African Rift and the entire so-called Great Rift Valley The African Great Lakes (Swahili: Maziwa Makuu; Kinyarwanda: Ibiyaga bigari) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift.
Faulted southeastern side of Svyatoy Nos peninsula, Lake Baikal – active faulting shown by faceted spurs. Artificial rendering of the Albertine Rift showing four of its rift lakes A rift lake is a lake formed as a result of subsidence related to movement on faults within a rift zone, an area of extensional tectonics in the continental crust .