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Image number: 966
Feature : plunge pool
Grouping : river erosion
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1993
Locality : Bafochu Mbu
Country : Cameroon
Region - tribe : Bamenda
Physiographic region : Bamenda highlands
Notice : notice Rock shelter developed at the base of high cliff in welded tuff. The river cascade (waterfall) from the cliff has scoured out a plunge pool. Boulders and other coarse slope deposits by rockfall and other mass movements.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1993    Image 966.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"