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| Image number: | 2099 |
| Feature : | gully |
| Grouping : | mass movements |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2007 |
| Locality : | Mutanga-Bujumbura |
| Country : | Burundi |
| Region - tribe : | Bujumbura |
| Physiographic region : | Rift-Tanganyika |
| Notice : | Upslope from the Lyceum 'Clarté de Notre-Dame' à Mutanga, a deep lavaka-like gully is developed more or less perpendicular to the slope. The gully has been deepened considerably during the last 50 years as a result of increasing peaks. The unusual location of the gully does rise the question whether a first ditch has not been digged around the lyceum ground in order to protect it against runoff from upslope. Anyway the deepening of the gully has initiated earth slides which affect now also the lyceum ground. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2007 Image 2099. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |