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rift1 Geology a long narrow zone of faulting resulting from tensional stress in the earth's crust rift2 US 1. a shallow or rocky part in a stream 2. the backwash from a wave that has just broken How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Now we had come to a spot where there is a great rift of black rock, and the name of that rift is U'Donga-lu-ka- Tatiyana. (Pit and rift and blue pool-brim, Middle-Jungle follow him Clambering here and there among the boulders they kept steadily on, gradually rising higher and higher until finally they came to a great rift in a part of the mountain, where the rock seemed to have split in two and left high walls on either side. |
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