List of rift lakes

This list of rift lakes includes rift lakes (Eng. Rift lake; Chin. Diqianhu 地 堑 湖 ), which are created by expansion in rift areas (rift zones). Most of the lakes listed here still exist today, some are lakes of prehistoric times.

Africa

• Northern part of the Great Rift Valley
  • Dead Sea ( Israel , West Bank , Jordan )

• African Great Lakes of the East African Rift
  • Lake Malawi ( Tanzania , Malawi , Mozambique )
  • Lake Albert ( Uganda , Democratic Republic of the Congo )
  • Edwardsee ( Democratic Republic of the Congo , Uganda )
  • Lake Kivu ( Rwanda , Democratic Republic of the Congo )
  • Lake Tanganyika ( Democratic Republic of the Congo , Tanzania , Zambia , Burundi )

• Other lakes in the East African Trench
  • Lake Magadi ( Kenya )
  • Elmenteitasee ( Kenya )
  • Baringo Lake ( Kenya )
  • Bogoria Lake ( Kenya )
  • Lake Nakuru ( Kenya )
  • Lake Naivasha ( Kenya )

America

• Lake Superior , North America

Antarctic

• Vostok Sea , Antarctica

Asia

• Daihai岱海 ( Inner Mongolia , China)
• Xiechi解 池, Salt Lake ( Shanxi , China)
• Chenghai程 海, ( Yunnan , China)
• Lake Baikal ( Siberia )

Europe

• Orcadian Lakes of the Devonian of Scotland and the Orkney
• Mjøsa lake in Norway

See also

• Rift valley