Question

What long valley extends along the eastern side of africa on the valley floor are several long slender lakes?

Answer 1

The name of the long valley that extends along the 'eastern side of Africa' and has several long slender lakes on its floor is the 'Great Rift Valley'.

Step-by-step explanation:

• The 'Great Rift Valley' is an approximately 6000 kilometers long valley that is formed due to the orientation of a number of vertical trenches right from the western Asian country of Lebanon to the southeastern African country of Mozambique.

• The width of the valley varies tremendously all throughout its course.

Answer 2

The valley that runs through East Africa is called the East African Rift System, also known as the Afro-Arabian Rift Valley. This rift represents a narrow zone that is a developing divergent tectonic plate boundary, where the African plate is in a process of splitting up in two separate tectonic continental plates, called the Nubian Plate and Somali Plate.