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| Image number: | 1435 |
| Feature : | stone pavement |
| Grouping : | slopes and slope deposits |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2005 |
| Locality : | Sai Island |
| Country : | Sudan |
| Region - tribe : | Nile valley |
| Physiographic region : | Desert-Sahara |
| Notice : | Stone pavements are rock fragments, distributed over the soil surface.There exist several hypotheses to explain the origine of stone pavements in deserts. Some hypotheses refer to wet palaeo-conditions |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2005 Image 1435. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |