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| Image number: | 2636 |
| Feature : | valley |
| Grouping : | river dynamics |
| Discipline : | hydrogeology |
| Year : | 2009 |
| Locality : | Butembo |
| Country : | D.R.Congo |
| Region - tribe : | Kivu |
| Physiographic region : | Rift-Albertine |
| Notice : | As a result of increasing river floods, the rivers start to establish a channel in their former channelless valley. Channels are widening and deepening what constitutes dangers, especially in towns. Natural hazard. Picture of lateral river cut in the burial grounds of Butembo. Parts of coffin and dead body are cropping out. Natural risk. Dark deposits above the coffin are deposits in the former channelless valley. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2009 Image 2636. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |