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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" |