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| Image number: | 2511 |
| Feature : | gorge |
| Grouping : | geological structures |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2009 |
| Locality : | Fish River Canyon |
| Country : | Namibia |
| Region - tribe : | Namib Desert |
| Physiographic region : | Fish River |
| Notice : | The Fish River Canyon is some 160 km long, and up to 550m deep. The Fish River, though now much reduced in volume formerly eroded deep into the surrounding nearly horizontal dolomite strata, which can be seen here. |
| Reference : | Vandecasteele, Ine, 2009 Image 2511. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |