How to Use rift valley in a Sentence
rift valley
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The high plain ran to the rift valley and the Rio Grande, which flows all the way to Mexico.
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Michael Paterniti,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Nov. 2025
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And its landscape is otherworldly—with a rift valley, lava fields torn apart by tectonic forces, and gorges and fissures aplenty.
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Carinne Geil Botta,
Travel + Leisure,
16 May 2026
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If the two plates keep moving apart, then eventually the Arabian Sea and rift valley will become a new ocean.
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Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
24 Nov. 2025
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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
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Near the equator of Venus lies Aphrodite Terra, a highland region spanning approximately half the size of Africa, characterized by rift valleys, ridges, and ancient lava flows.
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Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Nov. 2025
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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
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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
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