This article is about the geology of the valley. For culture and geography of the valley, see Jordan Valley.
Bik'at HayardenA 2003 satellite image of the region showing the Jordan Rift Valley
The Jordan Rift Valley, also Jordan Valley(Hebrew: בִּקְעָת הַיַרְדֵּןBīqʿāt haYardēn, Arabic: الغورAl-Ghor or Al-Ghawr),[citation needed] also called the Syro-African Depression, is an elongated depression located in modern-day Israel, Jordan and the West Bank. This geographic region includes the entire length of the Jordan River – from its sources, through the Hula Valley, the Korazim block, the Sea of Galilee, the (Lower) Jordan Valley, all the way to the Dead Sea, the lowest land elevation on Earth – and then continues through the Arabah depression, the Gulf of Aqaba whose shorelines it incorporates, until finally reaching the Red Sea proper at the Straits of Tiran.
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The JordanRiftValley, also JordanValley (Hebrew: בִּקְעָת הַיַרְדֵּן Bīqʿāt haYardēn, Arabic: الغور Al-Ghor or Al-Ghawr),[citation needed] also called...
The Great RiftValley (Swahili: Bonde la ufa) is a series of contiguous geographic trenches, approximately 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) in total length...
the larger JordanRiftValley. Unlike most other river valleys, the term "JordanValley" often applies just to the lower course of the Jordan River, from...
An earthquake struck the JordanRiftValley on December 5, 1033 and caused extreme devastation in the Levant region. It was part of a sequence of four...
regions: the Mediterranean coastal plain, the Central Hills, the JordanRiftValley and the Negev Desert. The Israeli Coastal Plain stretches from the...
century, covered almost the entire length of what today is called the JordanRiftValley, running in a north–south orientation between the southern end of...
Island of Peace JordanRiftValley List of rivers of Israel List of rivers of Jordan Mandaeans Naharayim "An Interfaith Look at the Jordan River". 25 July...
ridges by valleys and gorges, and a few mountainous areas. West of the plateau, land descents form the East Bank of the JordanRiftValley. The valley is part...
valley is situated between Mount Lebanon to the west and the Anti-Lebanon mountains to the east. It is the northern continuation of the JordanRift Valley...
Annexation of the JordanValley is the proposed application of Israeli sovereignty over the JordanValley. The idea has been advocated by some Israeli...
the shores of the Mediterranean Sea with Acre in the west, to the JordanRiftValley to the east; and from the Litani in the north plus a piece bordering...
suddenly into the JordanRiftValley. The riftvalley contains the Jordan River and the Dead Sea, which separates Jordan from Israel. Jordan has a 26 kilometres...
Shephelah, while eastwards the landscape falls steeply towards the JordanRiftValley. The southern end of the mountain range is at Beersheba in the northern...
in the continental crust. They are often found within riftvalleys and may be very deep. Rift lakes may be bounded by large steep cliffs along the fault...
used in the Bible for a mountain range "across the Jordan", understood as east of the JordanRiftValley, i.e. in Transjordan, to the east and south-east...
lies the JordanRiftValley, a small part of the 6,500-kilometer (4,039 mi) Great RiftValley. The Jordan River runs along the JordanRiftValley, from Mount...
northern coastal plain in the west to the Sea of Galilee and the JordanRiftValley to the east. Later the term was used to refer to the early Christians...
Jezreel Valley to the south; the Upper Galilee to the north, from which it is separated by the Beit HaKerem Valley; the JordanRiftValley with the Jordan River...
those of his successors, the Tulunid domains were expanded to include JordanRiftValley, as well as Hejaz, Cyprus and Crete. Ahmad was succeeded by his son...
– A devastating earthquake shook the JordanRiftValley region. The epicenter of the earthquake was in the Jordan River in a location between the Dead...
comprising the northernmost section of the Upper Galilee, and the northern JordanRiftValley. The Galilee Panhandle incorporates five municipal authorities. Towns...
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