The Ethiopian Rift Valley - Geological Landscapes

Geological Landscapes

AFAR

LAVA FLOW CLOSE TO SEMERA
AFAR

PANORAMA OF THE IMMINO GRABEN
AFAR

MAAR CLOSE TO SEMERA
Bale Mountains

Panorama of the Bale Mountains on the way to Goba
Bale Mountains: SANETTI PLATEAU

Panorama of the SANETTI PLATEAU in the Bale mountains
Bale Mountains: The western escarpment

Panorama of the western escarpment of the bale mts from the road to rire
maar aT butajira

THe hara sheitan volcanic lake south of butajira
chiracha caldera

the chiracha volcanic complex on the bilate river plain south of soddo
nechsar faults

normal faults on the eastern margin of the nechsar park, close to arba minch
south ofarba minch

panorama of the western rift margin, south of arba minch
The omO valley

descending in the omo valley, west of soddo
south of soddo

faults and volcanoes south of soddo
Faulted volcano near Soddo

Quaternary volcanic cone cut by a normal fault south of Soddo
Faults and volcanoes close to Soddo

Typical association of faults and volcanoes south of Soddo
Maar in Debre Zeit

Maar crater in Debre Zeit
Ethiopian Rift Valley

The Ethiopian Rift Valley close to Ziway
Asela

View of the Asela fault system
Bekele_Mola_fault

View of the normal fault close to Bekele Mola Langano
Fantale

Fantale volcano
Fantale_cone

Small cone at Fantale (in the background)
Fault_at_Sire

Normal fault close to Sire
Fault_close_to_Gedemsa

Normal fault close to the Gedemsa caldera
Galama_Range

View of the Galama range on top of the Somalian Plateau close to Asela
Golja_fault

View of the Golja fault
Golja_fault_2

Another view of the Golja fault
Guraghe_escarp

The Guraghe escarpment, CLOSE TO BUTAJIRA
Harubua

The small lake Harubua close to Langano
kone_caldera

Small caldera at Kone
Langano

Lake Langano
Maar_Debre_Zeyt

Maar crater at Debre Zeyt
Small_Lake_Guraghe

A small lake on top of the Guraghe escarpment
Waterfall_Abaya

Waterfall close to Lake Abaya
Wonji fault

a Wonji fault in the rift valley
bilbo Fumaroles

the bilbo fumaroles, close to the duguna fango volcano
chiracha

chiracha caldera from the bilate river plain
mt. damota from the bilbo fumaroles

mount damota (on the background) seen from the bilbo fumaroles
lake abaya

the north-eastern shores of lake abaya
normal fault close to abala

a normal fault close to the abala village, south-east of soddo, wolayta
panorama from hako

spectacular panorama from the top of the hako volcano, south-east of soddo, wolayta
fault north of lake abaya

impressive normal fault, at the western margin of the chakware graben, south-east of soddo, wolayta
Lake abaya

the northern shores of lake abaya
Wonji_fault

Analysing a Wonji fault
ASELA_fault

panorama of the asela fault
dilo-megado plain

normal fault bounding the dilo-megado plain
dilo-megado plain

Another view of the dilo-megado plain
cones close to megado
close to megado

recent lava flows close to megado
north of yabelo

fault escarpment north of yabelo
ririba

faults of the ririba rift
south of yabelo
west of dilo

chiracha caldera

west of dilo