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Image number: 1746
Feature : alluvial fan
Grouping : river deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2006
Locality : Danakil
Country : Ethiopia
Region - tribe : Afar-Qafar
Physiographic region : Rift-Ethiopian
Notice : Alluvial fan developed within the Asa Ali Ridge extension belt. Tectonic rotational slumping mass movements, tectonic hoghbacks.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2006    Image 1746.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"