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| Image number: | 2459 |
| Feature : | colluvial cone |
| Grouping : | gully |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2009 |
| Locality : | Maman Mobutu district |
| Country : | D.R.Congo |
| Region - tribe : | Kinshasa |
| Physiographic region : | Inter Nsele-Inkisi |
| Notice : | Gully at the Maman Mobutu district swallowed since 2004 more than fifty houses. Natural hazard, natural risk.Downstream, there is very high colluviation. The cone reaches the opposite valley side of the main river of which the gully is a tributary. The cone has buried several houses as well. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2009 Image 2459. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |