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Recent Examples of rift valley
For outdoor adventures, head to mountain towns like Whitwell, which offers paragliding opportunities near the unique rift valley, or Hartford, known for white-water rafting on the Pigeon River.
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Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
10 June 2026
The discovery is centered on the Diamantina Fracture Zone, which travels west from the southwesternmost tip of Australia into the Indian Ocean along a rift valley that formed some 50 million years ago, when the Down Under continent split from Antarctica.
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Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
Valles Marineris is an enormous rift valley system on Mars that scientists want to scour for traces of liquid water, which may exist in sheltered niches and serve as an habitat for possible life.
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Leonard David,
Space.com,
31 May 2026
The rift valleys of East Africa are some of the largest and most spectacular topographic features on Earth.
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David Bressan,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
There is a rift valley on the Rio Grande in the desert of New Mexico where an award-winning home sits.
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Jennifer Castenson,
Forbes,
22 Oct. 2024
Rather than having a central volcano, the Reykjanes Peninsula is dominated by a rift valley with lava fields and cones.
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Alexandra Banner,
CNN,
18 Mar. 2024
Valles Marineris is thought to be a rift valley, formed by uplift when hot material from the Mars's mantle bubbled up and stretched the planet's crust.
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Discover Magazine,
20 Oct. 2010
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
10 June 2026
The discovery is centered on the Diamantina Fracture Zone, which travels west from the southwesternmost tip of Australia into the Indian Ocean along a rift valley that formed some 50 million years ago, when the Down Under continent split from Antarctica.
—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
Valles Marineris is an enormous rift valley system on Mars that scientists want to scour for traces of liquid water, which may exist in sheltered niches and serve as an habitat for possible life.
—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
31 May 2026
The rift valleys of East Africa are some of the largest and most spectacular topographic features on Earth.
—
David Bressan,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
There is a rift valley on the Rio Grande in the desert of New Mexico where an award-winning home sits.
—
Jennifer Castenson,
Forbes,
22 Oct. 2024
Rather than having a central volcano, the Reykjanes Peninsula is dominated by a rift valley with lava fields and cones.
—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN,
18 Mar. 2024
Valles Marineris is thought to be a rift valley, formed by uplift when hot material from the Mars's mantle bubbled up and stretched the planet's crust.
—
Discover Magazine,
20 Oct. 2010
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rift valley
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At Garland Ranch, trails climb from the Carmel River through oak woodland, chaparral and shaded canyons with the sort of views that drew people to California in the first place.
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The Colorado River Headwaters Byway is an 80-mile National Scenic Byway that winds through mountain towns, passing alpine lakes, hot springs, and canyon overlooks.
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To compensate for winter’s period of lean rations, however, flatties gorge in spring to ease their wake-up hunger pangs and again in fall to gain weight like bears preparing for hibernation.
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This beloved New York State summertime tubing run starts at Table Rock and sends riders through a stunning chasm that cuts through a gorge.
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Head right, and there came public land, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest with its creeks and gulches and two-bit towns like Peanut and Beegum.
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The cocktail menu is a nod to the gulch’s history and Atlanta’s evolution—and revelers will also love the very champagne-forward wine list.
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Along with widespread highs in the 90s, the system will bring high humidity to the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, Duffus said, with more than two dozen states affected at its peak.
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When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.
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When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.
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When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.
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The pitch, as expected, appeared to have lost its spite nearing lunch when Latham, who had hung tough for 74 deliveries, tried turning Jofra Archer to the leg side but found a leading edge that Jacob Bethell superbly snatched out of the air at gully.
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On June 6, 1966, on a stretch of Highway 51 just south of Hernando, Mississippi, a portly, middle-aged white man named Aubrey Norvell stepped out of a gully, lifted his shotgun and fired three shots at James Meredith, a Black civil rights activist and Air Force veteran.
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About 10% of fathers develop symptoms like depression and anxiety during the perinatal period, which lasts from pregnancy through the first year after childbirth.
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Many Americans rely on ACA coverage to afford medications to treat various diseases such as diabetes, asthma, depression and autoimmune diseases.
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He’s watched side canyons turn from waterlogged moonscapes to glens home to trees with full canopies.
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Pause for lunch, then drift through fishing villages, beaches and glens that define Donegal’s rugged character.
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“Rift valley.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rift%20valley. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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