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| Image number: | 2288 |
| Feature : | alluvial fan |
| Grouping : | river deposits |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1999 |
| Locality : | Nakheil |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | Subsequent rivers on the hoghback give on alluvial fans. These are depositional bodies of mainly bedload. The channel to the left hasknown a flow event during last winter and grassy bush-like vegetation did grow along this channel. After some months the scrubs are dry and kreak of and are distributed by the wind. Some wind-blown vegetation is seen in the foreground of the picture. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1999 Image 2288. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/nl/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |