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| Image number: | 2055 |
| Feature : | debris cone |
| Grouping : | slopes and slope deposits |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1996 |
| Locality : | Tree shelter valley, Sodmein |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Desert-Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | This debris cone is not a thick body of rock debris, but a veneer of some tens of centimetres of debris, resting on a rocky surface of in situ rock. Many so-called debris cones in desertic and semi-desertic conditions are rather structural surfaces than depositional ones. Look to the halophytic temporary desert vegetation at the edge of the wadi bed. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1996 Image 2055. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |