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| Image number: | 2040 |
| Feature : | cave deposits |
| Grouping : | caves |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1996 |
| Locality : | Tree shelter |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Desert-Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | Along a shaft in the 'tree rock shelter' (Quseir, Red Sea Mountains), rock fragments and fines have been transported. These slope deposits have been supplied by fragmentation and flaking of the joint surface, relied to the shaft or gallery. A thick slab, fallen from the ceilings of the rock shelter, rests upon the 'shaft deposits'. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1996 Image 2040. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |