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| Image number: | 2289 |
| Feature : | disconformity |
| Grouping : | tectonics |
| Discipline : | geology |
| Year : | 1999 |
| Locality : | Nakheil |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | The Thebes limestone dips in the foreground steeply from left to right. In the hill crest the dipping is slightly from right to left. There should be either a stratigraphical disconformity or a fault between these two belts. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1999 Image 2289. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |