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 Translation for 'rift' from English to French
NOUN   a rift | rifts
VERB   to rift | rifted | rifted
rifting | rifts
SYNO breach | break | falling out | ...
déchirement {m} [d'un peuple par un conflit]rift
géol.
faille {f} [rupture]
rift
2 Words
géol.
rift {m}
rift valley
géol.
fossé {f} d'effondrement
rift valley
géol.
vallée {f} d'effondrement
rift valley
géol.
zone {f} faillée
rift zone
3 Words
géogr.géol.
vallée {f} du Grand Rift [situé en Afrique de l'Est]
Great Rift Valley
4 Words
fissurer qc. [amitié, union]to cause a rift in sth.
pol.
déchirure {f} du pays
rift within the country
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  • rift {m} = rift valley
  • vallée {f} du Grand Rift [situé en Afrique de l'Est] = Great Rift Valley
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Usage Examples English
  • Since the end of the Miocene the area of the Gulf of Suez rift has begun to experience post-rift thermal subsidence accompanied by flooding of the topographically lowest parts of the rift.
  • The Red Sea Rift is between the African (or Nubian) and Arabian Plates.
  • ... 3) Rift stage - Early Cretaceous - Represented by the Rio Pitanga Formation, Penedo Formation, Barra de Itiúba Formation and Coqueiro Seco Formation, increasing tectonism led to the formation of a rift-valley, the newly created rift was filled by an alluvial-fluvial-deltaic system.
  • This zone is within the Reelfoot Rift, a failed rift trending northeast.
  • The West and Central African Rift System (WCARS) is a rift system composed of two coeval Cretaceous rift sub-systems, the West African Rift sub-system (WAS) and the Central African Rift sub-system (CAS).

  • The Dnieper-Donets Rift or Pripyat-Dnieper-Donets Rift (also referred as a "paleorift" and "aulacogen") is an east-west running rift in the Sarmatian Craton that developed and was most active in the Paleozoic.
  • Lithospheric extension and rift basin formation are followed by an asymptotically decreasing post-rift subsidence, caused by thermal contraction and relaxation of the heated crust.
  • The Rift is another dimension in the game. In the Rift, Gems and DragonCash are useless and the player must collect Etherium.
  • Intracontinental and marine rift basins such as the Gulf of Suez, East African Rift, Rio Grande rift system and the North Sea often contain a series of half-graben sub-basins, with the polarity of the dominant fault system changing along the axis of the rift.
  • The rift is a Cretaceous/Tertiary structure that has similar tectonic characteristics to the Southern Sudan Rift, Blue Nile rift and Atbara rift.

  • The Midcontinent Rift is the largest-known continental rift in the world.
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