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Image number: 1691
Feature : mud plain
Grouping : evaporites
Discipline : pedology
Year : 2006
Locality : Danakil salt plain
Country : Ethiopia
Region - tribe : Afar-Qafar
Physiographic region : Rift-Ethiopian
Notice : Thin mud layer, displaying a red color in the morning sun, covers the salt plain of Danakil.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2006    Image 1691.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"