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Image number: 2610
Feature : gully management
Grouping : gully
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2009
Locality : Butembo
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Kivu
Physiographic region : Rift-Albertine
Notice : Gully of the 'abattoir' is filled with vegetation, including eucalyptus trees. In spite of this protection the gully walls are not completely stabilized. This gully is a river with springs, but channeling because of high flash floods as a result of increased runoff.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2009    Image 2610.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"