Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The flora and fauna of one of Africa's most spectacular regions is documented in 202 photographs, from snow-topped mountains to heat-blasted salt flats.
Africa's Great Rift Valley
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The flora and fauna of one of Africa's most spectacular regions is documented in 202 photographs, from snow-topped mountains to heat-blasted salt flats.
Tribes of the Great Rift Valley
Author: Elizabeth L. GilbertPublisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A day-by-day photographic journal of the annual migration path taken by the animals of the Serengeti Plain as they follow the cycle of the rains.
The Great Rift Valley
Author: John Walter GregoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The Great Rift Valley of East Africa
Author: Publisher: Struik Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
In a pictorial journey across the length and breadth of the East African section of the Great Rift Valley, award-winning wildlife photographers Anup and Manoj Shah explore the diversity of habitats created by this great fissure in the Earth
A Crack in the Earth
Author: Haim WatzmanPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374130589
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Great Rift Valley, which runs some three thousand miles from Syria to Mozambique, is one of the earth's most extraordinary geological features. The result of Syria's split from the African continent fifteen million years ago, this great "crack in the earth" crosses Jordan, Syria, Israel, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Kenya. In 2004, Israeli journalist Haim Watzman set out to explore the northern part of the Rift Valley, where he had lived for nearly two and a half decades. He interviewed a number of scientific experts: a zoologist fascinated by the behavioral patterns of indigenous birds; an archaeologist trying to re-create the standing stone formations left to us by ancient cultures; a geologist speculating on the valley's origins. Watzman raises provocative questions about the nature of this massive feature in the earth's crust: where it comes from, how it has developed, and how human civilization has fared on its shores. "Humankind has overlaid the geology not just with cities, dams, fields, and roads," he writes, "but also with history and biography and meanings."
Earthquake Time Bombs
Author: Robert YeatsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107085241
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
This book assesses the cities and communities at critical risk of devastating earthquakes, and asks what we can do to protect them.
Birds of Kenya's Rift Valley
Author: Adam Scott KennedyPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400851378
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Kenya's Rift Valley includes four major national parks--Lake Nakuru, Lake Bogoria, Mount Longonot, and Hell's Gate--as well as many smaller areas that are outstanding for wildlife. Birds of Kenya's Rift Valley features the 320 bird species that are most likely to be encountered on safari in this world-famous region, which runs from Lake Baringo in the north to Lake Magadi in the south. Featuring over 500 stunning color photos, this beautiful guide breaks new ground with its eye-catching layout and easy-to-use format. The book follows a habitat-based approach and provides interesting information about the ecology and behaviors of each species. Birds of Kenya's Rift Valley avoids technical jargon in the species descriptions, which makes the guide easily accessible to anyone. With it, you will be identifying birds in no time. Stunning photos of 320 bird species Major plumage variations depicted Jargon-free text Helpful notes on what to look and listen for, behavior, and why some birds are so named
Geoscience of Rift Systems
Author: Christopher K. MorleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Presents key results of hydrocarbon exploration activities by Amoco and other oil companies during the 1980s and 1990s in a number of rift segments in East Africa. Early chapters give a detailed review of the geological and geophysical data of the main regions explored, and later chapters present ge
The Great Rift Valley
Author: John Walter GregoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Afar Volcanic Province Within the East African Rift System
Author: G. YirguPublisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862391963
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The seismically and volcanically active East African Rift System is an ideal laboratory for continental break-up processes: it encompasses all stages of rift development. Its northernmost sectors within the Afar volcanic province include failed rifts, nascent sea-floor spreading, and youthful passive continental margins associated with one or more mantle plumes. A number of models have been proposed to explain the success and failure of continental rift zones, but there remains no consensus on how strain localizes to achieve rupture of initially 125-250 km-thick plates, or on the interaction between the plates and asthenospheric processes. This collection of papers provides new structural, stratigraphic, geochemical and geophysical data and numerical models needed to resolve fundamental questions concerning continental break-up and mantle plume processes. The focus is on how mantle melt intrudes and is distributed through the plate, and how this magma intrusion process controls along-axis segmentation and facilitates break-up.