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Image number: 175
Feature : pothole
Grouping : river erosion
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1975
Locality : Nzilo
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Katanga
Physiographic region : Kalahari sand plateau
Notice : Water on its own has not much eroding capacity. Potholes are scoured out by the movement of course bedload
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1975    Image 175.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"