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Image number: | 2075 |
Feature : | landslide scar |
Grouping : | mass movements |
Discipline : | geomorphology |
Year : | 2007 |
Locality : | RN 7, Kanyosha |
Country : | Burundi |
Region - tribe : | Bujumbura |
Physiographic region : | Mugamba Tanganyika rift shoulder |
Notice : | The Tanganyika rift shoulder SE of Bujumbura is characterized by actively vertically incising rivers. This is a landslide close to Mwirohe. The central part of the bobe is still present. Creep and local sliding is still continuing. |
Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2007 Image 2075. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |