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The East African mountains are a mountain region in the African Great Lakes, within Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.

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Eastern Rift mountains

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The mountains are related to the East African Rift, and are in two chains, the Western Rift includes the Virunga Mountains, Mitumba Mountains, and the...

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Great Rift Valley

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Western Rift Valley and the Eastern Rift Valley. The Western Rift, also called the Albertine Rift, is bordered by some of the highest mountains in Africa...

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List of mountain peaks by prominence

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covering all peaks in the world with 1500 m+ prominence. Compiled by Aaron Maizlish. The latest estimate is that there are 1,516. Portals:  Mountains  Lists...

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East African Rift

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The East African Rift (EAR) or East African Rift System (EARS) is an active continental rift zone in East Africa. The EAR began developing around the...

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List of mountains by elevation

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incomplete list of notable mountains on Earth, sorted by elevation in metres above sea level. For a complete list of mountains over 7200 m high, with at...

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List of regions of Africa

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centered on Lake Chad. East African Rift. The region contains Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda. Eastern Rift mountains Rift Valley Lakes African Great Lakes Swahili...

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Congo Basin

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African Great Lakes. The basin begins in the highlands of the East African Rift system with input from the Chambeshi, the Uele and Ubangi rivers in the upper...

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Alpine tundra

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Appalachian Mountains in North America, the Alps and Pyrenees of Europe, the Himalaya and Karakoram of Asia, the Andes of South America, the Eastern Rift mountains...

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Gregory Rift

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The Gregory Rift (Ufa la Gregori, in Swahili) is the eastern branch of the East African Rift fracture system. The rift is being caused by the separation...

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Albertine Rift montane forests

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ecoregion in east-central Africa. The ecoregion covers the mountains of the northern Albertine Rift, and is home to distinct Afromontane forests with high...

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Mount Kilimanjaro

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Kilimanjaro on the eastern and southern sides, respectively. In respect of it being 'the highest stratovolcano of the East African Rift that maintains a...

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Eastern Arc Mountains

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The Eastern Arc Mountains are a chain of mountains found in Kenya and Tanzania. The chain runs from northeast to southwest, with the Taita Hills being...

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Shanxi Rift System

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The Shanxi Rift System or Fen–Wei Rift System is a zone of active extensional tectonics that forms the eastern margin of the Ordos Block in northern China...

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Wichita Mountains

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Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen, being the result of a failed continental rift. The mountains are a northwest-southeast trending series of rocky promontories,...

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Judaean Mountains

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The Judaean Mountains, or Judaean Hills (Hebrew: הרי יהודה, romanized: Harei Yehuda) or the Hebron Mountains (Arabic: تلال الخليل, romanized: Tilal al-Khalīl...

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Eastern Highlands

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African Rift and Abyssinian physiographic provinces, part of the long chain of mountains that runs down East Africa. The mountains and mountain ranges...

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Mountain formation

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Mountain formation refers to the geological processes that underlie the formation of mountains. These processes are associated with large-scale movements...

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Rift

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Scandinavian Mountains and India's Western Ghats, are not rift shoulders. The formation of rift basins and strain localization reflects rift maturity. At...

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European Cenozoic Rift System

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Graben. Rifting started during the Eocene, pausing from the Late Oligocene to Middle Miocene before resuming in the Late Miocene. The eastern margin of...

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Andrew Aziz

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with climbers extending their expeditions beyond the local and regional mountains of Iran, and even past the renowned Himalayas and Karakoram ranges in...

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Mitumba Mountains

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The Mitumba Mountains stretch along the Western Rift Valley in Eastern Congo (DRC), west of Lake Tanganyika and Lake Kivu. The two main peaks, Mount Kahuzi...

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Cape Fold Belt

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continuous with the Ventana Mountains near Bahía Blanca in Argentina, the Pensacola Mountains (East Antarctica), the Ellsworth Mountains (West Antarctica) and...

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Drakensberg

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Zimbabwe and Mozambique in the Chimanimani Mountains) is due to a failed westerly branch of the main rift that caused Antarctica to start drifting away...

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List of sunbirds

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a. kaboboensis C. a. alinae C. a. tanganjicae C. a. marungensis Eastern Rift Mountains  LC  Unknown Olive sunbird C. olivacea (Smith, A., 1840) Eleven...

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Newark Supergroup

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Triassic basins, the Eastern North American rift basins, approximately 220–190 million years ago. The basins are characterized as aborted rifts, with half-graben...

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Selkirk Mountains

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The Selkirk Mountains are a mountain range spanning the northern portion of the Idaho Panhandle, eastern Washington, and southeastern British Columbia...

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