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| Image number: | 1996 |
| Feature : | rock shelter |
| Grouping : | caves |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1995 |
| Locality : | Sodmein |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Desert-Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | Sodmein cave is a cavity in Thebes limestone of Eocene age. The origin is karstic (solution), but its evolution is since a long time governed by physical breakdown of the rock: flaking, spalling off, splitting of rock. Sodmein cave is located to the left of a micro-graben (tectonics) in the limestone, and the location seems to be related to the existence of a number of fissures. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1995 Image 1996. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |