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| Image number: | 2734 |
| Feature : | steplike ditch |
| Grouping : | gully |
| Discipline : | Environment |
| Year : | 2009 |
| Locality : | Maman Mobutu district |
| Country : | D.R.Congo |
| Region - tribe : | Kinshasa |
| Physiographic region : | Inter Nsele-Inkisi |
| Notice : | The gully at Maman Mobutu district developed in 2008-9 regressively along a road. At an intermediade stage of gully development, the gully haed has been equipped with a step-like ditch, aiming to prevent further incision of the gully head and hence its further retreat. But the next rain, the gully head was slit in two heads, one at each side of the ditch. gully management. Natural hazard. natural risk.Gully prevention. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2009 Image 2734. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |