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Image number: 2461
Feature : stabilized gully
Grouping : gully
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2009
Locality : Maman Mobutu district
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Kinshasa
Physiographic region : Inter Nsele-Inkisi
Notice : A stabilized gully extends parallel to the active gully at the Maman Mobutu district. Runoff from the surface drained towards the gully head has been deviated. Runoff from the gully alone seems unable to maintain gully development. Stabilzed gullies are often occupied by a closed arbust and shrub vegetation
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2009    Image 2461.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"