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Image number: 1593
Feature : pedimentation
Grouping : geographical cycles
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1997
Locality : Ounjougou
Country : Mali
Region - tribe : Bandiagara Plateau
Physiographic region : W-African Savanna belt
Notice : Sheet flooded areas give often rise to badland formation by pedimentation: the retreat of a very wide gylly head, described as a pediment step.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1997    Image 1593.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"