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Image number: | 2235 |
Feature : | landslide lobe |
Grouping : | mass movements |
Discipline : | geomorphology |
Year : | 2007 |
Locality : | Shyorongi |
Country : | Rwanda |
Region - tribe : | Plateau de Byumba |
Physiographic region : | Interlacustrine belt |
Notice : | The central part of this landslide bobe has been moving and has pushed away the gabions. The remobilisation of this part of the toe is due to creep of the whole lobe whereby the front of the lobe becomes steeper. |
Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2007 Image 2235. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/nl/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |