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| Image number: | 441 |
| Feature : | tabular relief |
| Grouping : | differential erosion |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1998 |
| Locality : | Mekelle outlier |
| Country : | Ethiopia |
| Region - tribe : | Tigray |
| Physiographic region : | Abessinian highlands |
| Notice : | Scarpland plateaus result from the differentiel erosion of horizontally superposed geological layers, showing different resistance against weathering and erosion |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1998 Image 441. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |