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Image number: 514
Feature : spring tufa
Grouping : karst, caves, chemical deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2000
Locality : Tsigaba valley
Country : Ethiopia
Region - tribe : Tigray
Physiographic region : Abessinian highlands
Notice : The escarpment is studded by tufa, developed during former times when water came from the slope.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2000    Image 514.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"