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Image number: 632
Feature : escarpment
Grouping : tectonics
Discipline : geology
Year : 1975
Locality : Muhungwe
Country : Rwanda
Region - tribe : Virunga
Physiographic region : Rift-Albertine
Notice : Lava flows (foreground) end against the escarpment of precanbrian rocks, forming the northern outlier of the Congo-Nile divide
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1975    Image 632.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"