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Image number: 1542
Feature : river flow
Grouping : river deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1996
Locality : Ounjougou
Country : Mali
Region - tribe : Bandiagara
Physiographic region : W-African Savanna belt
Notice : Bedload and suspension load are left in the river bed after the river floods. The river bed seems to be choked and the dry season river flow hardly finds its way, but at the same time there is important occult discharge. herds of cattle dwell the river bed for water during the dry season.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1996    Image 1542.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"