Rift - Examples

Examples

• The East African Rift
• The Red Sea Rift
• The Baikal Rift Zone, the bottom of Lake Baikal is the deepest continental rift on the earth.
• The Gulf of Suez Rift
• Lake Timiskaming in Temiskaming Shores, Ontario
• Throughout the Basin and Range Province in North America
• The Rio Grande Rift in the southwestern US
• The rift zone that contains the Gulf of Corinth in Greece
• The Reelfoot Rift, an ancient buried failed rift underlying the New Madrid Seismic Zone in the Mississippi embayment
• The Rhine Rift, in south western Germany, known as the Upper Rhine valley, part of the European Cenozoic Rift System
• The Taupo Volcanic Zone in the north east North Island of New Zealand
• The Oslo Graben in Norway
• The Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben in Ontario and Quebec
• The Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province in British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska
• The West Antarctic Rift in Antarctica
• The Midcontinent Rift System, a late Precambrian rift in central North America
• The Fundy Basin, a Triassic rift basin in southeastern Canada
• The Narmada Rift valley in peninsular India