-Depression in the Rift Valley contains water that forms lakes.
-Faulting exposes minerals such as diatomite.
-Step faulting makes rivers to have water falls, rapids and cataracts.
-The scrap slopes/steep slopes tend to discourage settlement.
-Some rivers such as Katonga in Uganda hand their directions of flow changed.
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