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| Image number: | 1970 |
| Feature : | waterfall with plunge pool |
| Grouping : | river erosion |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1995 |
| Locality : | Victoria Falls |
| Country : | Zimbabwe |
| Region - tribe : | Zambezi valley |
| Physiographic region : | Kalahari sand plateau |
| Notice : | This 'tributary' of the Victoria waterfalls has eroded an immense plunge pool. Nice view on the river bed, upstream of the fall, heavilly incised in the bedrock. Erosion is not so intense on the waterfall rockface as at the bottom of the river bed upstream and at the plce where the waterfall impacts. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1995 Image 1970. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |