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Image number: | 2610 |
Feature : | gully management |
Grouping : | gully |
Discipline : | geomorphology |
Year : | 2009 |
Locality : | Butembo |
Country : | D.R.Congo |
Region - tribe : | Kivu |
Physiographic region : | Rift-Albertine |
Notice : | Gully of the 'abattoir' is filled with vegetation, including eucalyptus trees. In spite of this protection the gully walls are not completely stabilized. This gully is a river with springs, but channeling because of high flash floods as a result of increased runoff. |
Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2009 Image 2610. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |