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Image number: 2615
Feature : gully
Grouping : gully
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2009
Locality : Butembo
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Kivu
Physiographic region : Rift-Albertine
Notice : The 'Abattoir' gully incises a valley bottom on swelling clays. The gully heads develop in the direction from where houses deliver runoff water. Natural Hazard. Natural risk. Grazing ground, overgrazing.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2009    Image 2615.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"