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Image number: 1513
Feature : residual hills
Grouping : differential erosion
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1996
Locality : Douentza
Country : Mali
Region - tribe : Bandiagara
Physiographic region : W-African Savanna belt
Notice : Bandiagara sandstone on top of the small plateau. By erosion, this small massif has been separated from the Bandiagara plateau. The pediment plain is the divide between the waters drained to the Niger and the Black Volta.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1996    Image 1513.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"