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Jordan

In the Jordan rift valley, the continents of Africa and Asia are pulling apart from each other, and the land in between has been subsiding for millennia. The sinking has created the Dead Sea: rivers (most notably the Jordan River) drain into the deep basin created by the parting tectonic plates.....

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