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| Image number: | 1908 |
| Feature : | landslide |
| Grouping : | mass movements |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2007 |
| Locality : | Melfa Maryam, Hagere selam |
| Country : | Ethiopia |
| Region - tribe : | Tembien |
| Physiographic region : | Abessinian highlands |
| Notice : | Huge flow, originating in the basaltic plateau material and coming down over the cliffs. The toe, dissected by the river, displays rock debris 'swimming' in a fine matrix. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2007 Image 1908. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |