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Image number: 1531
Feature : rock bar and ancient lake deposits
Grouping : river deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1996
Locality : Ounjougou
Country : Mali
Region - tribe : Bandiagara
Physiographic region : W-African Savanna belt
Notice : Before the deposition of the upper yellowish silt, a rock bar traversed the river and organic rich fluvial deposits (grey colour)are present upstream of the bar. Heigth of deposits and bar head coincide.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1996    Image 1531.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"