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Image number: 2216
Feature : rill and gully erosion
Grouping : pluvial erosion
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2007
Locality : Bigogwe
Country : Rwanda
Region - tribe : Virunga
Physiographic region : rift Virunga
Notice : Abundant rains have provoked pluvial erosion on the hillsides. The eroded materials have been deposited in the depressions. Off-site effect of erosion on hillslopes.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2216.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"