Geology of Ethiopia

Tigray Escarpment in northern Ethiopia exposing the layers of the Ethiopia-Yemen Continental Flood Basalts.

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.