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Image number: 251
Feature : Synclinal valley
Grouping : tectonics
Discipline : geology
Year : 1995
Locality : Nakheil
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Red Sea Mountains
Physiographic region : Desert-Red Sea Mountains
Notice : In the foreground: Thebes limestone dipping away (hogbacks). In the distance, the limestones rise above the ground in front of the dark cambrian rocks
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1995    Image 251.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"