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Image number: 2153
Feature : soil slippage
Grouping : mass movements
Discipline : civil engineering
Year : 2007
Locality : Mabayi
Country : Burundi
Region - tribe : Kibira chain
Physiographic region : Rift shoulder Rusizi
Notice : The basement comples shows deep pockets of whitish kaoline weathering. These pockets are very prone to mass movements. Road construction was the reason for this slope instabilities. Protection works with stone walls and gabions. Soil conservation.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2153.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"