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Image number: 2160
Feature : landslide scar
Grouping : mass movements
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2007
Locality : Nyakibenda
Country : Burundi
Region - tribe : Rusizi - Mirwa Chain
Physiographic region : Rift shoulder Rusizi
Notice : Steep slopes under culture. Important gullying and landsliding occurs. Remnants of mountain forest on hill crests. Deforested slopes, especially when they are steep like here, are prone to accelerated erosion.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2160.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"