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| Image number: | 1948 |
| Feature : | corestone weathering |
| Grouping : | weathering |
| Discipline : | pedology |
| Year : | 2007 |
| Locality : | Imba degoa, W-side |
| Country : | Ethiopia |
| Region - tribe : | Tigray |
| Physiographic region : | Abessinian highlands |
| Notice : | Corestone weathering, typical in basalts, dolerites, granites...Here, the dolerite sill contains still fragments of the original sandstone rock. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2007 Image 1948. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |