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| Image number: | 992 |
| Feature : | Exhumed peneplain |
| Grouping : | differential erosion |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2005 |
| Locality : | Adi Kesho |
| Country : | Ethiopia |
| Region - tribe : | Tigray |
| Physiographic region : | Abessinian highlands |
| Notice : | notice The disconformity between the folded Precambrian and the subhorizontal Enticho sandstones is exhumed during the landscape incision and dissection which results from tectonic uplift since Tertiary times. Residual massifs (Inselbergs). |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2005 Image 992. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |