Usually means: Depression between diverging tectonic plates.
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  1. rift valley: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rift valley: Merriam-Webster
  3. rift valley: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Rift Valley, rift valley: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rift valley: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rift valley: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rift Valley: Wordnik
  8. rift valley: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Rift Valley, rift valley: Wiktionary
  10. rift valley: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. rift valley: Dictionary.com
  12. Rift Valley, Rift valley (disambiguation), Rift valley: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. rift valley: Rhymezone
  14. rift valley: FreeDictionary.org
  15. rift valley: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Rift Valley: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rift valley: Encyclopedia

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  1. rift valley: Nine Planets Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Rift Valley)

noun:  (geology) A graben structure between two tectonic plates which are opening relative to each other.
noun:  (geology) A mid-oceanic ridge system with central valleys.
noun:  The Great Rift Valley, of East Africa.

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