Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls · A trail of gorges

Exploration

Long-term river erosion · map: present Zambia–Zimbabwe border region

Imagined, simplified relation between today’s falls and bending gorges, not exact terrain, water level or an arrangement of past waterfalls.

The Zambezi eroded weaknesses in basalt to form waterfalls and gorges. Read the gorges below today’s falls as traces of erosion at different times.