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Image number: 1595
Feature : stone line
Grouping : soil and water conservation
Discipline : agriculture
Year : 1997
Locality : Ounjougou
Country : Mali
Region - tribe : Bandiagara Plateau
Physiographic region : W-African Savanna belt
Notice : Stones are often raged along the contours to retard sheet flow and to conserve water and soil.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1997    Image 1595.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"