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The 56 pages that link to East African Rift, each with the reason it gives.

• Plate tectonicsRelated: A spreading boundary caught in its opening act, on land where it can be watched.

• GondwanaRelated: It illustrates the kind of rifting that can eventually divide a continent.

• HomininRelated: Its exposures have yielded a large share of the evidence for early hominins.

• Lake VictoriaRelated: Lake Victoria occupies a shallow basin between branches of the rift.

• Normal faultRelated: Its fault systems illustrate active normal faulting during continental breakup.

• AustralopithecusRelated: Its fossil-rich deposits preserve several key Australopithecus species.

• NeogeneRelated: Its Neogene landscapes preserve a rich record of hominin evolution.

• Marie TharpRelated: Its land valleys gave Tharp the analogy that first made the ridge valley plausible to her.

• East AfricaRelated: Its geological boundary is distinct from the political region’s shifting limits.

• Dead Sea TransformRelated: Together with the Red Sea Rift, it forms the broader rift system linked to the transform’s southern end.

• Afar DepressionRelated: Its northern branch meets the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden rifts in Afar.

• Human–chimpanzee last common ancestorRelated: Geographic hypotheses about early hominin evolution often invoke this region, though the ancestor's location is unresolved.

• Mount KilimanjaroRelated: Rifting and associated magmatism shaped the tectonic setting around Kilimanjaro.

• ParanthropusRelated: Several key Paranthropus fossils come from deposits along this rift.

• Mountain rangeRelated: Rifting can create highlands and volcanic ranges without continental collision.

• Afar RegionRelated: Its branches help explain the region’s active faulting and volcanic landscape.

• Afar Triple JunctionRelated: Its southern branch extends the junction’s divergence into eastern Africa.

• Australopithecus anamensisRelated: Rift basins exposed and preserved many of the fossils used to study the species.

• Lualaba RiverRelated: Rift-related topography shapes nearby lakes and influences regional drainage.

• Mountain formationRelated: Rifting creates uplifted shoulders and fault-block highlands without plate collision.

• Fault blockRelated: Its rift valleys contain down-dropped blocks bounded by active faults.