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Image number: 1984
Feature : rock shelter
Grouping : caves
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1995
Locality : Sodmein catchment
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Desert-Red Sea Mountains
Notice : Many caves, galleries, cavities... in the Eocene Thebes limestone are probably karst phenomena (solution) but they currently evolve by mechanical erosion like pealing off, flaking and spalling and splitting of rocks.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1995    Image 1984.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"