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Image number: | 1531 |
Feature : | rock bar and ancient lake deposits |
Grouping : | river deposits |
Discipline : | geomorphology |
Year : | 1996 |
Locality : | Ounjougou |
Country : | Mali |
Region - tribe : | Bandiagara |
Physiographic region : | W-African Savanna belt |
Notice : | Before the deposition of the upper yellowish silt, a rock bar traversed the river and organic rich fluvial deposits (grey colour)are present upstream of the bar. Heigth of deposits and bar head coincide. |
Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1996 Image 1531. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |