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| Image number: | 2123 |
| Feature : | river bedload |
| Grouping : | river erosion |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2007 |
| Locality : | Kavimvira |
| Country : | D.R.Congo |
| Region - tribe : | Uvira |
| Physiographic region : | Rift-Tanganyika |
| Notice : | The Kavimvira descends the Mitumba rift shoulder. During big flash floods, stream floods, exceptional big boulders are transported. Look to the activities of people in the river bed. The side of the first hill in the background corresponds to a fault facet. The river endangers houses by lateral migration. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2007 Image 2123. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |