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| Image number: | 2314 |
| Feature : | recent rock movement |
| Grouping : | mass movements |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1999 |
| Locality : | Sodmein cave |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | The rock slab to the left of the trench which enters an old cavity rests on the top of the most recent cave deposits. It has been arrived there by sliding or creeping down from the rocky backslope in the shelter. Traces of geomorphic events are numerous in the Red Sea desert. Belgian Middle Egypt Prehistoric Project. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1999 Image 2314. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |