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Image number: 1125
Feature : soil slippage
Grouping : mass movements
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1981
Locality : Rugabano
Country : Rwanda
Region - tribe : Kibuye
Physiographic region : Interlacustrine belt
Notice : Soil slippages often occur on steep slopes at the end of the rainy seasonwhere rocks are shales, marls or other rocks, giving clayey weathering products.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1981    Image 1125.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"