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| Image number: | 1995 |
| Feature : | rock shelter |
| Grouping : | caves |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1995 |
| Locality : | Sodmein area |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Desert-Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | Cavities, galleries, caves, rockshelters are developed within the Eocene Thebes limestone. Although their origin is considered as the result of solution (karst), they currently evolve by physical weathering: spalling off, flaking, rock splitting. The Sodmein rock shelter, shown here, contains a lot of Paehistoric lithic artefacts. Archaeology. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1995 Image 1995. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |