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| Image number: | 2283 |
| Feature : | rock shelter |
| Grouping : | caves |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1999 |
| Locality : | Sodmein |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | The shelter is located at the end of a gallery, visible in the roof of the deeper part of the shelter. The actual shelter itself originated as a result of local sagging down of the rocks. The rockfall in the foreground comes from the cliff face in front of the shelter. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1999 Image 2283. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |