| Uganda has five prospective oil exploring areas along the western rift valley covering an total area of nearly 22,000 square kilometers. |
| The most important discussion of volcanic activity focuses on the Owens Valley, which is in fact an active rift valley. |
| Late in the Cenozoic, the main rift valley running through Ethiopia, Kenya, and points south, became the home of several species of large, noisy, and nearly hairless apes. |
| At first, the ban was due to an epidemic of rift valley fever, which killed more than 300 people in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. |
| The lake itself is a soda lake on the floor of the rift valley. |
| Instead of being swallowed up, as in a typical rift valley, the sediments are spread widely over the basin or anywhere that is slightly lower than the uplifted area. |
