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| Image number: | 2154 |
| Feature : | alluvial plain |
| Grouping : | river deposits |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2007 |
| Locality : | Gihanga |
| Country : | Burundi |
| Region - tribe : | Rusizi, Imbo Plain |
| Physiographic region : | Rift-Tanganyika |
| Notice : | The Rusizi river has filled up the 20 km wide tectonic trench North of the Lake Tanganyika, to form the Imbo plain, which is regularly inundated here. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2007 Image 2154. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |