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Image number: 2020
Feature : oasis
Grouping : desert vegetation
Discipline : botany
Year : 1995
Locality : Hydreuma
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Desert-Red Sea Mountains
Notice : In this wadi bed, the occult discharge between the coarse bedload appears at the surface along a rapid. This perennial spring is the centre of a small oasis, mainly containing Tamarisk and acacia.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1995    Image 2020.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"