| 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. |
| Far below, bathed in sunshine, stretching away to misty purple horizons, lie the broad expanses 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. |
| The Mariner rift valley was named after this spacecraft. |
| Lake Baikal in Siberia, a World Heritage Site, lies in an active rift valley. |
| Creation of a rift valley and the birth of an ocean. |
