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Image number: 2157
Feature : river dynamics
Grouping : river deposits
Discipline : Environment
Year : 2007
Locality : Kajeke river
Country : Burundi
Region - tribe : Rusizi, Imbo Plain
Physiographic region : Rift-Tanganyika
Notice : The Kajeke river, leaving the hilly area of the old Risizi valley slope and river deposits, knows increasing stream floods and flash floods and the river bed is eroding, slightly vertically but mainly sidewards. The kajeke river is now a gully.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2157.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"