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ID: 1111745
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1111745
Record Type:
physical
Great Rift Valley (valley)
Coordinates:
Lat: 00 01 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -0.0160
decimal degrees
Long: 036 01 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 36.0160
decimal degrees
Note:
Geological depression that runs from Lebanon in the Middle East, to southeast Africa. It covers one-sixth of the earth's surface.
Names:
Great Rift Valley
(
preferred
,
C
,
O
)
Eastern Rift Valley
(
C
,
V
)
Rift Valley
(
C
,
O
)
Great Rift System
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Great Rift Valley
(valley) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Great Rift Valley
(valley)
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Great Rift Valley
(valley) (
P
)
Place Types:
valley (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Eastern Rift Valley..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 18 April 2016
Great Rift System..........
[
VP
]
................................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 18 April 2016
Great Rift Valley..........
[
VP
]
................................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
539
Rift Valley..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
539
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
539
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 18 April 2016
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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