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 Translation for 'rift valley' from English to French
NOUN   a rift valley | rift valleys
géol.
rift {m}
rift valley
géol.
fossé {f} d'effondrement
rift valley
géol.
vallée {f} d'effondrement
rift valley
3 Words
géogr.géol.
vallée {f} du Grand Rift [situé en Afrique de l'Est]
Great Rift Valley
Partial Matches
déchirement {m} [d'un peuple par un conflit]rift
géol.
faille {f} [rupture]
rift
géol.
zone {f} faillée
rift zone
pol.
déchirure {f} du pays
rift within the country
fissurer qc. [amitié, union]to cause a rift in sth.
géogr.
val {m}
valley
géogr.
vallée {f}
valley
géogr.
vallée {f} du Rhin
Rhine Valley
géogr.pol.
Vallée {f} d'Aoste [région italienne]
Aosta Valley
géogr.géol.
vallée {f} glaciaire
glaciated valley
géogr.
vallée {f} du Rhône
Rhone Valley
géogr.
vallée {f} du Jourdain [région du Proche-Orient]
Jordan Valley
géogr.
bassin {m} de la Ruhr
Ruhr Valley
géol.
vallon {m}
small valley
géogr.géol.hydro.
cluse {f}
transverse valley
archéo.hist.
civilisation {f} de la vallée de l'Indus
Indus (Valley) Civilisation
archéo.hist.
civilisation {f} harappéenne
Indus (Valley) Civilisation
géogr.géol.
haute vallée {f}
high (mountain) valley
bot.T
muguet {m}
lily of the valley
filmF
La Vallée de la vengeance
Vengeance Valley [Richard Thorpe]
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Usage Examples English
  • In 2006, the Rift Valley Railways Consortium led by South African companies took over the operation of the Kenyan and Ugandan railway network on a contract lasting 25 years, with the opportunity of renewal.
  • This area, one of the only two hotspots that are entirely arid, includes the Ethiopian Highlands, the East African Rift valley, the Socotra islands, as well as some small islands in the Red Sea and areas on the southern Arabic Peninsula.
  • The lakes found within the Great Rift Valley have steep sides and are very deep.
  • It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.
  • This indicates that both humans and members of the "Pan" clade were present in the East African Rift Valley during the Middle Pleistocene.

  • In the early Triassic, as Pangea drifted north it was rent apart, forming the rift valley that is the Bay of Fundy.
  • The Great Rift Valley is a series of contiguous geographic trenches, approximately [...] in total length, that runs from Lebanon in Asia to Mozambique in Southeast Africa.
  • It extends from the Israeli coastal plain and the shores of the Mediterranean Sea with Acre in the west, to the Jordan Rift Valley to the east; and from the Litani in the north plus a piece bordering on the Golan Heights all the way to Dan at the base of Mount Hermon in the northeast, to Mount Carmel and Mount Gilboa in the south.
  • In the mountainous sections of Malawi surrounding the Rift Valley, plateaus rise generally [...] above sea level, although some rise as high as [...] in the north.
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