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Image number: 2123
Feature : river bedload
Grouping : river erosion
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2007
Locality : Kavimvira
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Uvira
Physiographic region : Rift-Tanganyika
Notice : The Kavimvira descends the Mitumba rift shoulder. During big flash floods, stream floods, exceptional big boulders are transported. Look to the activities of people in the river bed. The side of the first hill in the background corresponds to a fault facet. The river endangers houses by lateral migration.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2123.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"