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The geology of Ethiopia includes rocks of the Neoproterozoic East African Orogeny, Jurassic marine sediments and Quaternary rift-related volcanism. Events that greatly shaped Ethiopian geology is the assembly and break-up of Gondwana and the present-day rifting of Africa.
Asymmetrical ripple marks These are created by a one way current, for example in a river, or the wind in a desert. This creates ripple marks with still pointed crests and rounded troughs, but which are inclined more strongly in the direction of the current. For this reason, they can be used as palaeocurrent indicators.
The Gunda Gunde Monastery is located in the Misraqawi (Eastern) Zone of the northern Tigray Region in Ethiopia. It is known for its prolific scriptorium, and library of Ge'ez manuscripts. This collection of over 220 volumes, all but one dating from before the 16th century, is one of the largest collections of its kind in Ethiopia.
This contributed to a process by which medieval Ethiopian historians created a new historiographic tradition largely divorced from the ancient Aksumite textual corpus. [26] The Solomonic kings professed a direct link to the kings of Aksum and a lineage traced back to Solomon and the Queen of Sheba in the Hebrew Bible.
The following April 1977, Ethiopia abrogated its military assistance agreement with the United States and expelled the American military missions. The new regime in Ethiopia met with armed resistance from the large landowners, the royalists and the nobility. [112] The resistance was largely centred in the province of Eritrea. [113]
An Outline of the National Archives and Library of Ethiopia. Aethiopica Vol. 10: 92–105. WION, Anaïs, "The National Archives and Library of Ethiopia: six years of Ethio-French cooperation (2001-2006)", available on Open Archive Repository HAL-SHS and to be published in the Acts of the Enno Littmann Conference, Aksum, Dec. 2005.
Between 1960 and 1970, Ethiopia enjoyed an annual 4.4% growth rate in per capita production and gross domestic product (GDP). The manufacturing sector more than doubled from 1.9% in 1960–1961 to 4.4% in 1973–1974, and the growth rate for the wholesale , retail trade , transportation, and communication sectors increased from 9.5% to 15.6%.
The Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia, (or Main Ethiopian Rift or Ethiopian Rift Valley) is a branch of the East African Rift that runs through Ethiopia in a southwest direction from the Afar triple junction. In the past, it was seen as part of a "Great Rift Valley" that ran from Mozambique to Syria. Known for its scenery and diverse wildlife in ...