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| Image number: | 2488 |
| Feature : | river incision |
| Grouping : | river erosion |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2009 |
| Locality : | Abbabis |
| Country : | Namibia |
| Region - tribe : | Namib Desert |
| Physiographic region : | Namib Desert |
| Notice : | A river cuts through a cuesta landscape on the outskirts of the Namib Desert, forming large sandbanks on the insides of its meanders. Active incision occurs during flash floods or stream floods. |
| Reference : | Vandecasteele, Ine, 2009 Image 2488. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |