Wadi Digla, March 16, 2001

A wadi is a dry canyon carved by water.  Wadi Digla is one of hundreds river beds in the Eastern desert which drain to the Nile.

AUC faculty and staff who have come to see Wadi Digla.

Sedimentary limestone from the Eocene - 50 million years old.
Erosion, uplift, and tilting shapes the landscape

The canyon opens toward Cairo.

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