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A short distance north of the town of Nazret (Adama), the scenery within the Main Ethiopian Rift changes. It becomes harsher and more desolate. The lake sediments , such a widespread feature of the rift floor further south, disappear, to be replaced by a scatter of black basalt boulders and cindery blocks. At first these are thinly spread, but become thicker and more concentrated as one proceeds northwards. Signs of cultivation give way to thorny scrub. Cinder cones are fresher and more abundant.
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Williams, F.M. (2016). The Rift Valley Northwards: Volcanoes, Fissures and Fresh Lava Flows. In: Understanding Ethiopia. GeoGuide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02180-5_19
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