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Image number: 2310
Feature : valley
Grouping : slopes and slope deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1999
Locality : Nakheil
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Red Sea Mountains
Notice : Synclinal valley with Thebes limestone hogbacks (flatirons) in front and with the other limb of the synclinal in the right upper part of the picture on top of the black proterozoic rocks. Desert varnish, coating, on old terrace. Active Sodmein river bed in whitish in the left part of the valley.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1999    Image 2310.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"