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Image number: 2314
Feature : recent rock movement
Grouping : mass movements
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1999
Locality : Sodmein cave
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Red Sea Mountains
Notice : The rock slab to the left of the trench which enters an old cavity rests on the top of the most recent cave deposits. It has been arrived there by sliding or creeping down from the rocky backslope in the shelter. Traces of geomorphic events are numerous in the Red Sea desert. Belgian Middle Egypt Prehistoric Project.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1999    Image 2314.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"