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Image number: 197
Feature : incised peneplain
Grouping : geographical cycles
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1977
Locality : Rift shoulder, Nyungwe
Country : Rwanda
Region - tribe : Nyungwe
Physiographic region : Rift-Albertine
Notice : River incision as a result of tectonic uplift of rift shoulder. View from West of Gikongoro to the West: Congo-Nile divide incised peneplain with one residual hill above
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1977    Image 197.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"