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Image number: 2459
Feature : colluvial cone
Grouping : gully
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2009
Locality : Maman Mobutu district
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Kinshasa
Physiographic region : Inter Nsele-Inkisi
Notice : Gully at the Maman Mobutu district swallowed since 2004 more than fifty houses. Natural hazard, natural risk.Downstream, there is very high colluviation. The cone reaches the opposite valley side of the main river of which the gully is a tributary. The cone has buried several houses as well.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2009    Image 2459.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"