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| Image number: | 146 |
| Feature : | cavities |
| Grouping : | caves |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1993 |
| Locality : | Sodmein valley |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | The Eocene Thebes limestone in the Red Sea Mountains contains a lot of cavities, galleries, caves and rock shelters, having probably a karstic (solutional) origin, but which are currently affected by mechanical weathering, like pealing off, flaking, rock detachment and splitting. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1993 Image 146. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |