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| Image number: | 2033 |
| Feature : | desert pavement |
| Grouping : | slopes and slope deposits |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1996 |
| Locality : | Sodmein hoghback |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Desert-Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | Desert pavements typically occur on rocky surfaces in the desert. The pavement consist generally of rock fragments, showing at their exposed surface a dark desert varnish. A one m² rock pavement has been cleaned to show that it forms only a thin veneer above the normal soil. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1996 Image 2033. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |