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| Image number: | 1905 |
| Feature : | landslide |
| Grouping : | mass movements |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2007 |
| Locality : | Melfa Maryam, Hagere selam |
| Country : | Ethiopia |
| Region - tribe : | Tembien |
| Physiographic region : | Abessinian highlands |
| Notice : | Landslides affect the basaltic rocks on top of the hills and come down along slope valleys, where cliffs of the underlying Amba Aradam sandstones and Antalo Limestones are absent or retreated. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2007 Image 1905. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |