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Image number: 1091
Feature : rock shelter
Grouping : caves
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2005
Locality : Neakuto Leaeb
Country : Ethiopia
Region - tribe : Welo
Physiographic region : Abessinian highlands
Notice : notice Rock shelters of this type often originate as a result of the combined action of river and seepage erosion. Big water deviation works, both upstream and downstream are actually executed in order to preserve the church in the shelter
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2005    Image 1091.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"