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Image number: 2235
Feature : landslide lobe
Grouping : mass movements
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2007
Locality : Shyorongi
Country : Rwanda
Region - tribe : Plateau de Byumba
Physiographic region : Interlacustrine belt
Notice : The central part of this landslide bobe has been moving and has pushed away the gabions. The remobilisation of this part of the toe is due to creep of the whole lobe whereby the front of the lobe becomes steeper.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2235.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"