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Image number: 2052
Feature : rockfall
Grouping : slopes and slope deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1996
Locality : Sodmein cave
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Desert-Red Sea Mountains
Notice : Rockfall, consisting of the whole granulometric spectrum from fine dust (some micrometeres) to rock fragments and boulders (several tens of centimetres). Note that the rockfall shows 'leaning-over' structures, whereby the fragments show an oversteepening in respect to the slope over which they moved.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1996    Image 2052.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"