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Image number: 2062
Feature : wadi deposits
Grouping : river deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1996
Locality : Sodmein catchment
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Desert-Red Sea Mountains
Notice : The wadi river deposits show nice horizontally banded layering. In the layers of coarse fragments, imbrication is generally very pronounced, indicating strong flow.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1996    Image 2062.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"