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Image number: 2081
Feature : river pushed aside by creeping lobe
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, being pushed by the Mwirohe landslide creep lobe towards the direction from where the picture has been taken.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2081.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"