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Image number: 2709
Feature : gully
Grouping : gully
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2009
Locality : Kinshasa road to Kisantu
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Kinshasa
Physiographic region : Inter Nsele-Inkisi
Notice : Gullies affect the steep hill flanks. Gully development is mostely very sudden, this means in one rainy season. Many houses in Kinshasa are destructed by gullying. natural hazard. Natural risk.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2009    Image 2709.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"