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Image number: 1651
Feature : structural relief
Grouping : differential erosion
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2006
Locality : Amba Raeset
Country : Ethiopia
Region - tribe : Tembien
Physiographic region : Abessinian highlands
Notice : The highest level in the landscape is formed by plateau basalts. Thelower level with the fresh cliff corresponds to Amba Aradam Sandstone. The amphitheatre-like heads result from rotational slumpings, downslope prolonged in flows. Mass movements.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2006    Image 1651.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"