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Image number: 1584
Feature : rice fields
Grouping : agricultural techniques
Discipline : agriculture
Year : 1997
Locality : Niger delta at Kouankourou
Country : Mali
Region - tribe : Niger delta
Physiographic region : Niger catchment
Notice : During the dry season, agriculture by irrigation. The laterite crust on top of the Bandiagara sandstone dips to the west and disappears below the river deposits.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1997    Image 1584.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"