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Image number: 2129
Feature : landslide
Grouping : mass movements
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2007
Locality : Mulongwe - Kalimabenge
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Uvira
Physiographic region : Rift-Tanganyika
Notice : The Mitumba Range between Mulongwe and Kalimabenge is affected by huge active landsliding. Look in the foreground to soil conservation measures with stone walls and terracing. This is the westerly extension zone of Uvira.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2129.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"