Environmental hazard from fissures in the Main Ethiopian Rift

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 481-490

  Asfaw, Laike Mariam ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD; FISSURE; RIFT ZONE;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 0032455939     PISSN: 08995362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-5362(98)00074-8     Document Type: Article

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