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Image number: 1857
Feature : alluvial fan
Grouping : river erosion
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2006
Locality : Uvira
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Kivu
Physiographic region : Rift-Tanganyika
Notice : Kavimvira railway bridge and alluvial fan, summer 2006, looking to Tanganyika lake. This transport line is not used anymore. The bridge is destabilized by river erosion.
Reference : Trefois, Philippe,   2006    Image 1857.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"