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| Image number: | 2081 |
| Feature : | river pushed aside by creeping lobe |
| Grouping : | mass movements |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2007 |
| Locality : | RN 7, Kanyosha |
| Country : | Burundi |
| Region - tribe : | Bujumbura |
| Physiographic region : | Mugamba Tanganyika rift shoulder |
| Notice : | The Tanganyika rift shoulder SE of Bujumbura is characterized by actively vertically incising rivers. The picture shows the Kanyosha river, being pushed by the Mwirohe landslide creep lobe towards the direction from where the picture has been taken. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2007 Image 2081. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/nl/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |