Editing Great Rift Valley (section)

==Theoretical extent==
[[File:Ocean-birth.svg|thumb|Diagram of a rift valley's future evolution into a [[sea]]|left]]
[[File:Graben Afar ASTER 20020327.jpg|thumb|Satellite image of a [[graben]] in the [[Afar Depression]]]]
Today these rifts and faults are seen as distinct, although connected. Originally, the Great Rift Valley was thought to be a single feature that extended from [[Lebanon]]{{dubious |See talk-page: no, starting at the Marash triple junction in Hatay! |date= December 2024}} in the north to [[Mozambique]] in the south, where it constitutes one of two distinct physiographic provinces of the [[East African mountains]]. It included what today is called the Lebanese section{{dubious |Same problem as previous dubious tag. |date= December 2024}} of the [[Dead Sea Transform]] (Turkey to [[Straits of Tiran]]{{dubious |Turkey to Sinai ain't Lebanon. |date= December 2024}}), the [[Jordan Rift Valley]] (geographic term for section including entire course of the [[Jordan River]], the [[Dead Sea]], and the [[Arabah]] Valley), [[Red Sea Rift]], and the [[East African Rift]].<ref name= BriggsBlatt2009>{{cite book|author1=Philip Briggs|author2=Brian Blatt|title=Ethiopia: the Bradt travel guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QFb6pacaczsC&pg=PA450|date=15 July 2009|publisher=Bradt Travel Guides|isbn=978-1-84162-284-2|page=450}}</ref> These rifts and faults are considered to having been formed 35 million years ago.