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Image number: 1759
Feature : exhumed ancient badland
Grouping : geographical cycles
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1997
Locality : Ounjougou
Country : Mali
Region - tribe : Bandiagara
Physiographic region : W-African Savanna belt
Notice : The whitish earth pillar is part of a badland which existed at the moment that the more orange coloured silts have been deposited.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1997    Image 1759.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"