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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"