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Image number: 2316
Feature : rockfall
Grouping : mass movements
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1999
Locality : Wadi Sodmein
Country : Egypt
Region - tribe : Quseir
Physiographic region : Red Sea Mountains
Notice : Huge boulders (scale given by 1m² excavation) were detatched from the Thebes limestone cliff and rest upon the Wadi Sodmein river bed.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1999    Image 2316.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/nl/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"