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Image number: 1998
Feature : rockfall
Grouping : slopes and slope deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1995
Locality : Sodmein cave
Country : Kenya
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Desert-Red Sea Mountains
Notice : Rockfall has been active inside the rock shelter. It results here in slightly stratified deposits, supplemented by the ceilings through flaking and spalling off and also through granular desaggregation, producing a lot of 'dust'. Some of the dust probably comes from outside the cave as a result of aeolean activities.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1995    Image 1998.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"