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| Image number: | 1980 |
| Feature : | wadi |
| Grouping : | river deposits |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1995 |
| Locality : | Sodmein catchment |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Desert-Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | Large and wide wadi valleys cross the desert. Mountain front escarpment: Researchers doubt whether the gullies result from water erosion or dry sand flow. In the latter case sandy dejection cones would have to be found at the gully junction with the wadi bed. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1995 Image 1980. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |