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| Image number: | 2266 |
| Feature : | tunnel |
| Grouping : | weathering |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1999 |
| Locality : | Tree shelter valley, Sodmein |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | Cavities in Thebes limestone, showing mechanical weathering by detachment of flakes, small rock fragments, small slabs etc. The detached fragments seem to migrate over the rill-like ground surface. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1999 Image 2266. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |