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| Image number: | 2263 |
| Feature : | desert pavement |
| Grouping : | slopes and slope deposits |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1999 |
| Locality : | Sodmein hoghback |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | Desert pavements are thin veneers of stone fragments at the surface. On the hogback, they are lag deposits and form as a result of washing out of the fines. The left photograph from 1996 shows a 1m² surface cleaned. The right picture shows the re-appearence of coarse rock fragments in 1999. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1999 Image 2263. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/nl/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |