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Image number: 2302
Feature : rock shelter
Grouping : caves
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1999
Locality : Sodmein
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Red Sea Mountains
Notice : Sodmein cave probably results from the collapse of an older, lower lying, cavity. Microtectonic setting. Aggrading river. Cliff rockfall in front of the shelter. Belgian Middle Egypt Prehistoric project.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1999    Image 2302.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"