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Image number: 717
Feature : tabular relief
Grouping : tectonics
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2002
Locality : Amba Raeset
Country : Ethiopia
Region - tribe : Tigray
Physiographic region : Abessinian highlands
Notice : The hard layer on top of the mountain is Amba Aradam sandstone. The valley in the center corresponds to a fault along the left and right half of the hill have been vertically displaced.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2002    Image 717.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"