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| Image number: | 1984 |
| Feature : | rock shelter |
| Grouping : | caves |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1995 |
| Locality : | Sodmein catchment |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Desert-Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | Many caves, galleries, cavities... in the Eocene Thebes limestone are probably karst phenomena (solution) but they currently evolve by mechanical erosion like pealing off, flaking and spalling and splitting of rocks. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1995 Image 1984. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |