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Image number: 2280
Feature : speleothem
Grouping : karst, caves, chemical deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1999
Locality : Sodmein cave
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Red Sea Mountains
Notice : The Sodmein rock shelter continues deeper in the Thebes limestone rocks with a network of shafts and unaccessible galleries where stalactites, dripstones and cavities of probable solutional origin are visible.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1999    Image 2280.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"