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Image number: | 2105 |
Feature : | landscape dissection |
Grouping : | gully |
Discipline : | geomorphology |
Year : | 2007 |
Locality : | Bujumbura Mutanga |
Country : | Burundi |
Region - tribe : | Bujumbura |
Physiographic region : | Rift-Tanganyika |
Notice : | The Ntahangwa river incises and the oversteepened slopes bcome unstable. Unstabilities endanger the new houses under construction in this expansion zone of Bujumbura. The river erosion is due to higher runoff. Mass movements. Old and new scars are visible. |
Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2007 Image 2105. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |