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Image number: 2274
Feature : Synclinal valley
Grouping : tectonics
Discipline : geology
Year : 1999
Locality : Nakheil
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Red Sea Mountains
Notice : The Nakheil river follows the axis of a syncline in the Thebes limestone. The left ail of the syncline rests on folded metamorphic rocks.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1999    Image 2274.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"