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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
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Age and rates of denudation of Trap Series basalts at Blue Nile Gorge, Ethiopia
Nature, Volume 254, No. 5497, Year 1975
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BETWEEN Lake Tana and the Sudan border the Blue Nile has cut a deep gorge across the Ethiopian Highlands. The first 150 km of its course lies on lavas of the Tertiary Trap Series, after which the river flows through horizontal Mesozoic and Palaeozoic sediments until the Precambrian is reached 330 km from Lake Tana1. About 280 km below the lake the Addis Ababa-Debre Markos road crosses the gorge at 10° 05′N, 38° 10′E, where 250 m of Trap Series basalts overlie at least 1,150 m of sediments the base of which is not exposed. The gorge is 1,400 m deep and 20 km wide and is incised into a plateau 2,600 m high. © 1975 Nature Publishing Group.
Authors & Co-Authors
McDougall, Ian A.
Australia, Canberra
The Australian National University
Morton, W. H.
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
National Museum of Ethiopia
Williams, Martin A.J.
Australia, Sydney
Macquarie University
Statistics
Citations: 129
Authors: 3
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1038/254207a0
ISSN:
00280836
Study Locations
Ethiopia
Sudan