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Recent Examples of rift valleyThe rift valleys of East Africa are some of the largest and most spectacular topographic features on Earth.—David Bressan, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025 There is a rift valley on the Rio Grande in the desert of New Mexico where an award-winning home sits.—Jennifer Castenson, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024 Valles Marineris is thought to be a rift valley, formed by uplift when hot material from the Mars's mantle bubbled up and stretched the planet's crust.—Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2010 Rather than having a central volcano, the Reykjanes Peninsula is dominated by a rift valley with lava fields and cones.—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024 Rather than having a central volcano, the Reykjanes Peninsula is dominated by a rift valley, with lava fields and cones.—Catherine Nicholls, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024 Baringo is a county based within Kenya’s rift valley, which, according to Buret, experiences unnoticeable tectonic earth movement daily.—Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2023 Fontana is a geothermal spa with a beautiful pool overlooking þingvallavatn, a rift valley lake in þingvellir National Park (which is also home to famous sites like the Gullfoss waterfall and Geysir geothermal area).—Erika Owen, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2022 Rotorua draws tourists to its famous hot springs, but for visitors who prefer science to spas, the nearby volcanic rift valley Waimangu (www.waimangu.co.nz) is a must.—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2014
The beautiful undulating canyons have been sculpted by water and time and offer a peacefulness rarely found elsewhere – but watch out for the rattlesnakes and scorpions.
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Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
7 June 2025
Another attraction different from its neighbors, Santa Rosa’s Lobo Canyon is reported to feature spectacular sandstone cliffs, but the trek to the canyon is described by the Park Service as a strenuous 9.6-mile round-trip hike.
The gulch is in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
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Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
16 Apr. 2025
Press releases from the attorneys general emphasize the gulch between the leaders, a microcosm of their significantly different approaches to running the agency.
Her seawall drops about 7 feet into a mucky gully where freshwater once flowed from a manmade reservoir known as Wixom Lake.
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Kristen Jordan Shamus,
Detroit Free Press,
22 Sep. 2024
The responders learned that a party of four climbers from Renton, which is a suburb of Seattle, were involved in a fall while descending a steep gully, the Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office said.
One of the biggest temperate rainforests in the United States, the Hoh Rain Forest is worth visiting just for fantastical trails like the Hall of Mosses and Hoh River Trail that wind through peaceful glens of trees positively dripping with moss.
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Zoe Baillargeon,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Apr. 2025
In terms of materials, Brown describes their creation as a result of her early success, pointing to 2002’s Figures in a Landscape 2, her six-foot by almost seven-foot painting that sends you back to one of Fragonard’s forest glens, with the female in the gaze of the lurking male.
Over time, the nearly circular 75-mile-wide (120 kilometers) depression has been eroded by water and ice, enlarging it to nearly twice its initial size.
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Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
6 June 2025
Young caregivers report more depression, anxiety, and stress than their peers.
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