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Image number: 2059
Feature : gallery
Grouping : pseudo-karst
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1996
Locality : Sodmein catchment
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Desert-Red Sea Mountains
Notice : Tunnels like this in Thebes limestone actually evolve by mechanical break down of the rockwalls: rock framgmentation, flaking...The question remains wether they originated as solution features (karst)
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1996    Image 2059.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"