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Image number: | 2629 |
Feature : | gully |
Grouping : | gully |
Discipline : | geomorphology |
Year : | 2009 |
Locality : | Butembo |
Country : | D.R.Congo |
Region - tribe : | Kivu |
Physiographic region : | Rift-Albertine |
Notice : | Roads on convergent slopes easily contribute to concentration of runoff from more than one first order basin. This can be the reason for gully development. A gully head is often preceeded from inside the runon area by a rill with potholes in the bottom. Rill head. |
Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2009 Image 2629. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |