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| Image number: | 2059 |
| Feature : | gallery |
| Grouping : | pseudo-karst |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1996 |
| Locality : | Sodmein catchment |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Desert-Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | Tunnels like this in Thebes limestone actually evolve by mechanical break down of the rockwalls: rock framgmentation, flaking...The question remains wether they originated as solution features (karst) |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1996 Image 2059. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |