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Image number: 2105
Feature : landscape dissection
Grouping : gully
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2007
Locality : Bujumbura Mutanga
Country : Burundi
Region - tribe : Bujumbura
Physiographic region : Rift-Tanganyika
Notice : The Ntahangwa river incises and the oversteepened slopes bcome unstable. Unstabilities endanger the new houses under construction in this expansion zone of Bujumbura. The river erosion is due to higher runoff. Mass movements. Old and new scars are visible.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2105.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"