Case 7 Landscape and Life along the East African Rift:  
the Virunga Mountains, Rwanda 
by Robert E. Ford
 
 
 
Tour I: The Rift System in Global and Continental Scale: A Tour of the Region as seen from Space and Ground-level (from North to South)
 
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Slide 1: Continent of Africa showing most of the Afro-Arabian rift system from Apollo 17.
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Slide 2: Relief/Elevation map of the African continent. 
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Slide 3: Key features of the Afro-Arabian rift system.
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Slide 4: DEM (Digital Elevation Model) of Ethiopia and the Afars Triangle.
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Slide 5: Political map of East Africa.
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Slide 6: The Afars triangle from space.
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Slide 7: Erta-Ale volcano in the Afars triangle.
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Slide 8 : The southern end of Lake Rudolf (Turkana) on the Kenya /Ethiopia border.
 
Slide 9:  Cross-sectional diagram across East Africa.
Slide 10: Oblique low-level aerial view of a portion of the Rift Valley in central Kenya. 
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Slide 11: Mt. Kenya a Remnant Volcanic Plug
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Slide 12:  Just south of Lake Natron in the Gregory Rift Valley (GRV) on the Tanzania/Kenya border.
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Slide 13: Oldoinyo volcano erupting (south of Lake Natron) 
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Slide 14:  Lava dome of Ol Doinyo Lengai (by Celia Nyamweru).
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Slide 15: Mt. Kilimanjaro from the Space Shuttle.
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Slide 16: Half-graben Structureson Lake Tanganyika. .
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Slide 17: Central Lake Tanganyika and the Mahali Mountains from space.
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Slide 18: The southern end of Lake Malawi around Monkey Bay. 
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Slide 19:  Fishermen on the shores of Lake Malawi.
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Slide 20:  Lake Chilwa from atop the Zomba Plateau and escarpment.
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Slide 21: The Mulanje Massif from space (one of Africa’s larges)t. 
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Slide 22: The Mulanje Massif (from the west side within Malawi).
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Slide 23:  High altitude “moor” on top of the Mulanje Massif
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Created 12 February 1998. Last updated 19 May1998  by JDH.