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Image number: 1237
Feature : stone pavement
Grouping : slopes and slope deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2005
Locality : Sai Island
Country : Sudan
Region - tribe : Nile valley
Physiographic region : Desert-Sahara
Notice : notice Stone pavements, desert pavements, stone mulches are rock fragments distributed over the soil. Several hypotheses explain their origin. In ceratin conditions in deserts, they might refer to past wet conditions.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2005    Image 1237.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"