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Image number: | 2621 |
Feature : | gully |
Grouping : | gully |
Discipline : | geomorphology |
Year : | 2009 |
Locality : | Butembo 'abattoir' |
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. Habitation and buildings. House. |
Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2009 Image 2621. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |