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Landscapes and Landforms of Ethiopia

This book provides a succinct but comprehensive presentation of key geomorphological locations and topics including information about geomorphological heritage and maps to visit the most important sites. Apart from often being remarkably scenic, landscapes reveal stories that often can be traced bac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Billi, Paolo (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edición:1st ed. 2015.
Colección:World Geomorphological Landscapes,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Geomorphological landscapes of Ethiopia: an introduction
  • Geology of Ethiopia: a review and a geomorphological perspective
  • The climate of Ethiopia
  • Ethiopian rivers
  • Planation surfaces and long term geomorphological evolution of Ethiopia
  • Paleoglaciated landscapes of Simen and other mountains in Ethiopia
  • Geomorphology of the archaeological area of Aksum
  • Geomorphology of Adwa district
  • Geomorphology of "amba" landscape of northern Ethiopia
  • Gully development in Tigray Highlands
  • Tufa dams in Tigray (northern Ethiopia) as Late Pleistocene-Holocene climate proxies
  • Ephemeral streams in the Kobo basin
  • Sediment yield variability at various catchment scales and its impact on reservoirs in the Ethiopian highlands
  • Hayk Lake 3500 years of climatic and hydrologic changes in northern Ethiopia
  • Tectonic and volcanic geomorphology of the rift zones - the Afar triangle
  • Ethiopian Rift lakes - landforms and hydrology
  • Geomorphology of the Lakes Region - geomorphological record of palaeohydrological and palaeoclimatic events in an active volcano-tectonic setting
  • Water-rock interaction and lakes hydrochemistry in the Main Ethiopian Rift
  • The landscape and landforms of the Ogaden
  • Geo-Hazard in Ethiopia
  • Land degradation in the Ethiopian highlands.