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Image number: 2054
Feature : organic deposits
Grouping : slopes and slope deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1996
Locality : Sodmein cave
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Desert-Red Sea Mountains
Notice : Charcoal concentration in rockfall. Rockfall, consisting of the whole granulometric spectrum from fine dust (some micrometeres) to rock fragments and boulders (several tens of centimetres). Note that the rockfall shows 'leaning-over' structures, whereby the fragments are flat lying or showing an oversteepening in respect to the slope over which they moved. Archaeology.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1996    Image 2054.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"