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Image number: 2078
Feature : landslide
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 picture shows the Kanyosha valley, affected by landslide scars. The town of Bujumbura is visible.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2078.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"