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Image number: 716
Feature : rock shelter
Grouping : karst, caves, chemical deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1993
Locality : Sodmein
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Desert-Red Sea Mountains
Notice : notice Sodmein cave, developed within Thebes limestone, might be of solutional origin, but has mainly evolved by physical weathering (rockfall) of the limestone
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1993    Image 716.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"