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Image number: 2076
Feature : deeply incised river
Grouping : mass movements
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2007
Locality : RN 7, Kanyosha
Country : Burundi
Region - tribe : Bujumbura
Physiographic region : Mugamba Tanganyika rift shoulder
Notice : The Tanganyika rift shoulder SE of Bujumbura is characterized by actively vertically incising rivers. The picture shows the Kanyosha river, having recently renewed the incision into the lobe of the landslide of Mwirohe
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2076.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"