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| Image number: | 301 |
| Feature : | rock houses and escarpment |
| Grouping : | habitation and buildings |
| Discipline : | human and social sciences |
| Year : | 1996 |
| Locality : | Sanga |
| Country : | Mali |
| Region - tribe : | Falaise de Bandiagara - Dogon |
| Physiographic region : | W-African Savanna belt |
| Notice : | The escarpment is about 200 m high. People have their house not only at the foot of the escarpment but also in the Bamanda sandstone itself. The escarpment results from differential erosion and can be considered as a cuesta front. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1996 Image 301. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |