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| Image number: | 2310 |
| Feature : | valley |
| Grouping : | slopes and slope deposits |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1999 |
| Locality : | Nakheil |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | Synclinal valley with Thebes limestone hogbacks (flatirons) in front and with the other limb of the synclinal in the right upper part of the picture on top of the black proterozoic rocks. Desert varnish, coating, on old terrace. Active Sodmein river bed in whitish in the left part of the valley. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1999 Image 2310. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |