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Figure 4.17: Significant water volumes can be locked up on continents and out of circulation from the global ocean in rift lakes like these the lakes of eastern Africa. In geologic time, especially during periods of significant rifting, even much larger lakes are thought to have existed. From left to right the lakes are: Lake Upembe, Lake Mwaru, Lake Tanganyika (largest), and Lake Rukwa. The lakes are located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, NE Zambia, and southern Tanzania.
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Credit: <a href="http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=54786" target="_blank">NASA: Visible Earth: Lakes of the African Rift Valley</a>
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