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| Image number: | 2262 |
| Feature : | rockfall |
| Grouping : | mass movements |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2008 |
| Locality : | Wukro region |
| Country : | Ethiopia |
| Region - tribe : | Tigray, Wukro |
| Physiographic region : | Abessinian highlands |
| Notice : | Rock slide and rockfall just North of Wukro pictured on the 3rd of April 2008. The affected rock is Adigrad sandstone. Rockfall is an important process of cliff recesssion in Northern Ethiopia.: Nyssen, J., Poesen, J., Moeyersons, J., Deckers, J., Mitiku Haile, 2006. Processes and rates of rock fragment displacement on cliffs and scree slopes in an amba landscape, Ethiopia. Geomorphology, 81: 265?275. |
| Reference : | Nyssen, Jan, 2008 Image 2262. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |