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| Image number: | 2471 |
| Feature : | gully in town |
| Grouping : | gully |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2009 |
| Locality : | Laloux, Kinshasa |
| Country : | D.R.Congo |
| Region - tribe : | Kinshasa |
| Physiographic region : | Inter Nsele-Inkisi |
| Notice : | Gully of Laloux, sight on the gully head. Natural hazard. Natural risk. Damage around the gully head. Houses in danger are left. Headward retreat has been stopped by a metal construction of a step-like runoff ditch which protects the gully head against erosion by runoff delivered by the road.Plung pool effect might lead to future undermining of the line.Gully management. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2009 Image 2471. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |