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| Image number: | 2352 |
| Feature : | gullying |
| Grouping : | soil erosion |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2009 |
| Locality : | Lisala |
| Country : | D.R.Congo |
| Region - tribe : | Lisala |
| Physiographic region : | Congo basin |
| Notice : | Gullying badly affects many urbanized areas and towns in Central Africa. The gullies develop after increase of the runoff coefficient as a result of the development of urban structures like roads, buildings and impermeable surfaces. Natural hazard, natural risk. Attempts to stabilisation by bambou structures in the gully head and by piling up plastic waste |
| Reference : | Smets, Benoît, 2009 Image 2352. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |