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Image number: 1997
Feature : desert pavement
Grouping : slopes and slope deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1995
Locality : Sodmein area
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Desert-Red Sea Mountains
Notice : Along rills and gullies it becomes clear that many slopes are not scree slopes, composed of rockfall material, but are developed on fines, covered by a thin veneer of rock fragments of gravel to boulder size. Rock pavements, stone-lines.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1995    Image 1997.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"