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Image number: | 2057 |
Feature : | Thebes limestone |
Grouping : | slopes and slope deposits |
Discipline : | geomorphology |
Year : | 1996 |
Locality : | Tree shelter valley, Sodmein |
Country : | Egypt |
Region - tribe : | Quseir |
Physiographic region : | Desert-Red Sea Mountains |
Notice : | Joints, tunnel-like cavities, fissures, debris. Differential erosion as a result of mechanical weathering with fragmentation of sound rock. Pseudo-karst. The debris cone consists only of a rather thin veneer of rock fragments, covering in situ rocks. River bed (wadi) in foreground. Halophytic vegetation. |
Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1996 Image 2057. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/nl/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |