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Image number: 2058
Feature : wadi
Grouping : river deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1996
Locality : Wadi Nakheil, Sodmein
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Desert-Red Sea Mountains
Notice : Flat wadi bed with temporary green halophytic desert vegetation. To the right, hogback in steeply dipping limestone. Note mini-hogback in the left part of the wadi bed. Dark rocks in the laft background belong to Precambrian series.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1996    Image 2058.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"