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Image number: 1983
Feature : railway
Grouping : mining & energy
Discipline : economy, welfare and health
Year : 1995
Locality : Sodmein catchment
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Desert-Red Sea Mountains
Notice : Railways are constructed in the desert to transport extracted ores , like phosphates to the factory of Quseir. Transport. The railway follows the wadi bed. Note deep incisions in the limestone mountain in the beckground.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1995    Image 1983.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"