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Image number: 2343
Feature : marginal graben
Grouping : landscape dynamics
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2008
Locality : near Weldiya
Country : Ethiopia
Region - tribe : Wollo
Physiographic region : Rift-Ethiopian
Notice : A multiple fault step, escarpment, with old landflow(s) and a river which is characterized by lower base discharge and higher flash floods than some decades ago. River bed morphology is actively changing during the floods.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2008    Image 2343.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"