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Image number: 2375
Feature : landslide scar
Grouping : mass movements
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2009
Locality : RN10 Burundi
Country : Burundi
Region - tribe : Bujumbura
Physiographic region : Rift-Tanganyika
Notice : By Plunge pool effect from the tube, a deep gully head has been created. The gully head wall became unstable and the soil mass around slipped down. In such cases the soil mass slid down has been liquidified and there is no lobe remnant. The slide plane of the head scar has been slightly affected by runoff.
Reference : Nahimana, Louis,   2009    Image 2375.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"