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Image number: 2074
Feature : landslide scar
Grouping : mass movements
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2007
Locality : RN 7, Kanyosha
Country : Burundi
Region - tribe : Bujumbura
Physiographic region : Mugamba Tanganyika rift shoulder
Notice : The Tanganyika rift shoulder SE of Bujumbura is characterized by actively vertically incising rivers. The road has been affected by the landslide to the left and has been reconstructed higher on the hill. Gullying starts from that new road section.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2074.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"