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East African Rift Valleys

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JW. GREGORY'S classical work on the rift valley, in Kenya focused attention on the rift valleys of Central Africa, and the historical retrospect given by Bailey Willis at the beginning of the recent fJarnegie Institution volume on the subject provides a summary of the views of the pioneers, though there are some notable omissions both in this and in the bibliography.

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SIMMONS, W. East African Rift Valleys. Nature 139, 339 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139339a0

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