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| Image number: | 2280 |
| Feature : | speleothem |
| Grouping : | karst, caves, chemical deposits |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1999 |
| Locality : | Sodmein cave |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | The Sodmein rock shelter continues deeper in the Thebes limestone rocks with a network of shafts and unaccessible galleries where stalactites, dripstones and cavities of probable solutional origin are visible. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1999 Image 2280. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/nl/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |