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Image number: 2075
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. This is a landslide close to Mwirohe. The central part of the bobe is still present. Creep and local sliding is still continuing.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2075.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"