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Image number: 1390
Feature : escarpment
Grouping : rocks
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1996
Locality : Guete, Bankass
Country : Mali
Region - tribe : Bandiagara - Dogon
Physiographic region : W-African Savanna belt
Notice : notice This is an outlier of the famous Falaise de Bandiagara. Schistes de Toun, overlain by Koutiala sandstone. Archaeological sites: iron ore exploitation.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1996    Image 1390.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"