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| Image number: | 381 |
| Feature : | desert pavement |
| Grouping : | soil survey |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2002 |
| Locality : | Sai |
| Country : | Sudan |
| Region - tribe : | Nile valley |
| Physiographic region : | Desert-Sahara |
| Notice : | Desert pavements can be lag deposits to water or wind erosion, or they can be squeezed up by swelling soils. The green belt between the two inselbergs is the Nile valley oasis. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2002 Image 381. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |