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| Image number: | 2041 |
| 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 sound rock. They have been deposited on a bare rock surface visible in the foreground. (Archaeological excavations Prof. Vermeersch, KULeuven) |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1996 Image 2041. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |