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Image number: 1684
Feature : alluvial fan
Grouping : river deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2006
Locality : Danakil plain
Country : Ethiopia
Region - tribe : Afar-Qafar
Physiographic region : Rift-Ethiopian
Notice : Huge alluvial cones cover the red weathered Tertiary substrate where the Asa Ali Ridge ends and the Danakil plain starts. The cone is incised by the wadi: river erosion.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2006    Image 1684.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"