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Image number: | 2709 |
Feature : | gully |
Grouping : | gully |
Discipline : | geomorphology |
Year : | 2009 |
Locality : | Kinshasa road to Kisantu |
Country : | D.R.Congo |
Region - tribe : | Kinshasa |
Physiographic region : | Inter Nsele-Inkisi |
Notice : | Gullies affect the steep hill flanks. Gully development is mostely very sudden, this means in one rainy season. Many houses in Kinshasa are destructed by gullying. natural hazard. Natural risk. |
Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2009 Image 2709. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |