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Image number: | 379 |
Feature : | city view |
Grouping : | town |
Discipline : | human and social sciences |
Year : | 1989 |
Locality : | Bukavu |
Country : | D.R.Congo |
Region - tribe : | Kivu |
Physiographic region : | Rift-Albertine |
Notice : | This part of the city is located on a composite huge landslide, extending from the headscar in the background to the foreground. This landslide is introduced by active faulting and secondary remobilisations of creep or slumping locally affect the whole area from time to time. |
Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1989 Image 379. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |