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Image number: 1044
Feature : hogback
Grouping : differential erosion
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2005
Locality : Wukro
Country : Ethiopia
Region - tribe : Tigray
Physiographic region : Abessinian highlands
Notice : notice Adigrat sanstone, dipping southwards. The hogback front is affected by rotational slump, mass movements.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2005    Image 1044.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"