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| Image number: | 1981 |
| Feature : | rock shelter |
| Grouping : | caves |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1995 |
| Locality : | Sodmein cave |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Desert-Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | Many caves, galleries, cavities... in the Eocene Thebes limestone are probably karts phenomena (solution) but they currently evolve by mechanical erosion like pealing off, flaking and spalling and break down of rocks. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1995 Image 1981. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |