The East African rift valley system has paved the way to two branches – eastern rift valley and western rift valley. The two branches divide Kenya north-to-south and enters Tanzania where it dies out. Lake Victoria is between these two branches. These fractures follow the old sutures between continental masses and the Tanzania craton. Both the eastern and western branches are grouped with Ethiopian rift to create the East African rift system. Thus, what appears to be a whole rift is actually a sequence of related rift basins that create the distinctive topography and geology of East African rift valley.

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