Understanding Ethiopia Geology and Scenery /

• Main Author: Williams, Frances M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: GeoGuide,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Cultural heritage.; Geomorphology.; Earth Sciences.; Earth Sciences, general.; Cultural Heritage.

Understanding Ethiopia is a detailed description of Ethiopia’s geological story and enables non-specialist readers to share the author’s thrill at gaining a deeper insight into the processes which produced, and continue to shape, this amazing country. Ethiopia’s spectacular landscapes, ranging from...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Setting the scene: Ethiopia today
• Beginnings: The First Billion Years
• Rocks and landforms of the south and west
• The far north: Axum and beyond
• The Early and Middle Years: Ice, Sea and Sand
• The great gorges: slices through time
• The rocks, landforms and hidden churches of Tigray.