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Image number: | 1516 |
Feature : | escarpment |
Grouping : | geographical cycles |
Discipline : | geomorphology |
Year : | 1996 |
Locality : | North side of Bandiagara plateau - Douentza |
Country : | Mali |
Region - tribe : | Bandiagara |
Physiographic region : | W-African Savanna belt |
Notice : | The northern escarment of the Bandiagara plateau is spectacular. Cliffs and boulder slopes, pillars. Pediment in the foreground: agriculture below the savanna tree canopy. |
Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1996 Image 1516. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |