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Image number: 2293
Feature : secondary limestone deposits
Grouping : karst, caves, chemical deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1999
Locality : Tree shelter valley, Sodmein
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Red Sea Mountains
Notice : some galleries are garned or even barred by secondary limestone deposits. This shows that karst processes (solution and redeposition of limestone) have been active in this area which is a desert at present.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1999    Image 2293.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"