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Image number: | 1593 |
Feature : | pedimentation |
Grouping : | geographical cycles |
Discipline : | geomorphology |
Year : | 1997 |
Locality : | Ounjougou |
Country : | Mali |
Region - tribe : | Bandiagara Plateau |
Physiographic region : | W-African Savanna belt |
Notice : | Sheet flooded areas give often rise to badland formation by pedimentation: the retreat of a very wide gylly head, described as a pediment step. |
Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1997 Image 1593. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/nl/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |