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Image number: 2629
Feature : gully
Grouping : gully
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2009
Locality : Butembo
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Kivu
Physiographic region : Rift-Albertine
Notice : Roads on convergent slopes easily contribute to concentration of runoff from more than one first order basin. This can be the reason for gully development. A gully head is often preceeded from inside the runon area by a rill with potholes in the bottom. Rill head.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2009    Image 2629.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"