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| Image number: | 1956 |
| Feature : | river |
| Grouping : | river erosion |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1995 |
| Locality : | Zambezi, Livingstone |
| Country : | Zimbabwe |
| Region - tribe : | Zambezi |
| Physiographic region : | Kalahari sand plateau |
| Notice : | When the watter level is low the river bed appears to form many islands and the river becomes anastomosing, showing several branches. Here, about 1 km upstream of the Victoria falls, the river bed is composed of eroded rocks. Only few river bed deposits. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1995 Image 1956. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |