page_title: Tsaliet
section_title: Boulders and pebbles in the river bed
hierarchical_section_title: Tsaliet / Geology / Boulders and pebbles in the river bed
caption_attribution_description: English: Tsaliet River near Addeha
context_page_description: Tsaliet is a river in northern Ethiopia, belonging to the Nile basin. Rising in the mountains of Dogu’a Tembien, where it is first called May Leiba River and then Tinsehe River, it flows westward through a deep gorge, to become Tsaliet in its lower course, where it empties in Weri’i River, just upstream of the main Weri’i bridge along the road to Adwa.
context_section_description: From upstream to downstream, the following lithological units occur in the catchment. 
  Phonolite plugs
  Upper basalt
  Interbedded lacustrine deposits
  Lower basalt
  Amba Aradam Formation
  Antalo Limestone
  Quaternary freshwater tufa
  Adigrat Sandstone
  Edaga Arbi Glacials
  Tsaliet metamorphic rock
  Logically, in the uppermost stretches of the river, only the pebbles and boulders of the upper lithological units will be present in the river bed, whereas more downstream one may find a more comprehensive mix of all lithologies crossed by the river.
caption: Tsaliet River near Addeha
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