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| Image number: | 1999 |
| Feature : | subaerial weathering of limestone |
| Grouping : | weathering |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1995 |
| Locality : | Sodmein area |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Desert-Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | Small and bigger rock fragments are accumulating (rockfall) at the bottom of this gallery cavity in the Thebes limestone. Honeycomb weathering is also visible. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1995 Image 1999. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |