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| Image number: | 2218 |
| Feature : | alluvial fan |
| Grouping : | pluvial erosion |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2007 |
| Locality : | Bigogwe |
| Country : | Rwanda |
| Region - tribe : | Virunga |
| Physiographic region : | rift Virunga |
| Notice : | Abundant rains have provoked pluvial erosion on the hillsides. The eroded materials have been deposited in the depressions to form an alluvial fan in the embayment of the Muzinga river. Off-site effect of erosion on hillslopes in one single geomorphological event! |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2007 Image 2218. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/nl/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |