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Image number: 1488
Feature : rock bar
Grouping : river erosion
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1996
Locality : Yamé river at Ounjougou
Country : Mali
Region - tribe : Bandiagara - Dogon
Physiographic region : W-African Savanna belt
Notice : This rock bar of Bandiagara sandstone is partly destructed by river erosion during stream floods. The bar is overlain by fluvial deposits.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1996    Image 1488.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"