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Image number: 1985
Feature : shrinkage cracks
Grouping : mass movements
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1995
Locality : Sodmein valley
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Desert-Red Sea Mountains
Notice : Fine deposits in the wadi have been shrinked what gave rise to shrinkage cracks.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1995    Image 1985.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"