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Image number: 2315
Feature : dust
Grouping : aeolian activities
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1999
Locality : Sodmein cave
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Red Sea Mountains
Notice : All horizontal rocky surfaces looking upwards are covered by a sheet of fine dust, apparently wind-blown from outside the shelter. Continued accumulation leads to dry sand flow, dry sliding, over the rocky surface towards the front of the shelter. Belgian Middle Egypt Prehistoric Project.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1999    Image 2315.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"