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rift zone

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rift zone
n.
A large area of the earth in which plates of the earth's crust are moving away from each other, forming an extensive system of fractures and faults.
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In the middle of this rift zone lies the world's deepest lake, Lake Baikal, which is almost 1700m deep and contains 20 percent of the world's freshwater.
India and Asia collided millions of years ago to create rift in ... by Asian News International
It's the first large event we have seen like this in a rift zone since the advent of some of the space-based techniques we're now using.
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The site sits along the rift zone, where there can be up to 25 feet of fault slippage in seconds.
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