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This work aimed at understanding the lithological controls on the SW-flowing segment of the Blue Nile and its ~ 1500-m deep Nile Gorge in the NW Ethiopian Plateau. The gorge exposes a ~ 1100-m-thick Mesozoic sedimentary section overlain by ~ 400-m-thick Cenozoic flood basalt. This work found no significant controls of the river channel by local structure. A NW–SE geologic cross-section was constructed...