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Recent Examples of rift valleyThere is a rift valley on the Rio Grande in the desert of New Mexico where an award-winning home sits.—Jennifer Castenson, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024 Valles Marineris is thought to be a rift valley, formed by uplift when hot material from the Mars's mantle bubbled up and stretched the planet's crust.—Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2010 Rather than having a central volcano, the Reykjanes Peninsula is dominated by a rift valley with lava fields and cones.—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024 Rather than having a central volcano, the Reykjanes Peninsula is dominated by a rift valley, with lava fields and cones.—Catherine Nicholls, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024 Baringo is a county based within Kenya’s rift valley, which, according to Buret, experiences unnoticeable tectonic earth movement daily.—Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2023 Fontana is a geothermal spa with a beautiful pool overlooking þingvallavatn, a rift valley lake in þingvellir National Park (which is also home to famous sites like the Gullfoss waterfall and Geysir geothermal area).—Erika Owen, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2022 Rotorua draws tourists to its famous hot springs, but for visitors who prefer science to spas, the nearby volcanic rift valley Waimangu (www.waimangu.co.nz) is a must.—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2014 Because of its location, the lake bed sits upon a rift valley and thus is slowly being pulled apart.—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Feb. 2022
Smallmouths are also impacting rainbow and brown trout, two other non-natives that are managed closely in the canyon.
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Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
13 Mar. 2025
With its warm wood planking, plentiful resting areas, and plantings of long, waving grasses, the park, no matter how crowded, feels like a calm canyon snaking through crumbling tenements and monumental skyscrapers, offering occasional glimpses of the Hudson River beyond.
Kloss’ landscape prints deftly, insightfully capture the mountains and streams and gorges and cottonwood trees and snow and atmosphere of the terrain in and around Taos.
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Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park spans 31,000 acres of exceptionally rugged, remote terrain that surrounds part of a deep, steep-walled gorge carved into rock by the Gunnison River, McClatchy News reported.
From this elevation west across the deep gulch that existed was one of the toughest pulls of the entire trail.
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Dan Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
26 Jan. 2025
In the Star Wars: Skeleton Crew premiere, did Wim’s dad seem to find him pretty quickly, considering that that gulch was a long speeder bike ride away from home?
If reaching a safe shelter is not possible, either crouch down in your car and cover your head, or leave your vehicle and seek refuge in a low-lying area like a ditch or ravine.
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NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Mar. 2025
If no alternative exists, set up camp in a valley, ravine, or other low-lying areas.
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Southern California Weather Report,
Orange County Register,
13 Mar. 2025
Starting in July, the islands transform into a sea of hydrangeas, with vibrant white, blue and purple blooms lining roads and valleys.
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Emese Maczko,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
These early cosmic hills and valleys extend millions of light years across, and in the billions of years after the ACT snapshot, gravity pulled their denser regions inwards to birth stars that then formed the first galaxies.
In terms of materials, Brown describes their creation as a result of her early success, pointing to 2002’s Figures in a Landscape 2, her six-foot by almost seven-foot painting that sends you back to one of Fragonard’s forest glens, with the female in the gaze of the lurking male.
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Robert Sullivan,
Vogue,
17 Mar. 2025
Easing out of Glasgow Central station, the Glasgow-to-Mallaig line follows the mighty River Clyde before darting into the wild glens of Loch Lomond.
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Few movies from the 2020s have hit me quite as hard as Aftersun, a movie about not only dealing with depression, but being close to somebody dealing with depression.
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Travis Bean,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
Sleep deficiency is also linked to diabetes, stroke, and mental health conditions like depression.
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