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Image number: 2064
Feature : debris flow
Grouping : slopes and slope deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1996
Locality : Tree shelter
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Desert-Red Sea Mountains
Notice : Evacuation of rock fragments and dust out of vertical shaft by a mini debris flow, a mass movement type, indicating the saturation of the debris by water during the event. Even small winter rains in the Red Sea Mountains Desert provoke pronounced geomorphological activity.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1996    Image 2064.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"