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Image number: | 2632 |
Feature : | spring |
Grouping : | gully |
Discipline : | hydrogeology |
Year : | 2009 |
Locality : | Butembo |
Country : | D.R.Congo |
Region - tribe : | Kivu |
Physiographic region : | Rift-Albertine |
Notice : | Gully head opens where thr rill cuts through the bottom of the harder soil above the deeply weathered and soft bedrock. Runoff can be catastrophic. Natural hazard. Natural risk. Often, a perched water table is present above the weathering base, basal surface of weathering. |
Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2009 Image 2632. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |