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Image number: 1638
Feature : gully in dune field
Grouping : river erosion
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1997
Locality : Dié - Bandiagara escarpment near Kani Kombolé
Country : Mali
Region - tribe : Bankas
Physiographic region : W-African Savanna belt
Notice : Gullies are actively developing in the ancient dune fields East of the Bandiagara escarpment. Gully incision leads to reactivation of aeolian activity.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1997    Image 1638.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"