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| Image number: | 2264 |
| Feature : | rockfall |
| Grouping : | mass movements |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1999 |
| Locality : | Tree shelter valley, Sodmein |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | In front of shafts and galleries in the Thebes limestone walls, concentrations of rock fragments can be found, suggesting they were evacuated from the shaft, gallery or tunnel. It looks like evacuations by mass movements, maybe small scale mud flows, debris flows or rock slides. It shows the geomorphological activity in this dry desert area with only winter rains |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1999 Image 2264. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |