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Image number: 1257
Feature : aeolianites
Grouping : aeolian deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1999
Locality : Umdloti Beach
Country : South-Africa
Region - tribe : KwaZulu-Natal
Physiographic region : South-East Africa
Notice : notice Aeolianites are old dune or other wind deposits. In this case they date from the last interglacial. They show a calcareous cimentation what explains their karstic weathering
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1999    Image 1257.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"