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Image number: 1642
Feature : runoff creep
Grouping : mass movements
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1972
Locality : Kona
Country : Nigeria
Region - tribe : Shebshi Mountains - Mumuye
Physiographic region : West-African rain belt
Notice : Rock fragments can undergo runoff creep, a type of slow mass movement, induced by runoff. The distance between the wooden stick and the rock fragment after one year.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1972    Image 1642.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"