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| Image number: | 2001 |
| Feature : | rills |
| Grouping : | pluvial erosion |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1995 |
| Locality : | Sodmein area |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Desert-Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | Although the Red Sea Mountains are one of the dryest places on earth (3 mm of rainfall/year, Measurements suggest that many of the rills are becoming active during sparse winter rains. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1995 Image 2001. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |