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Image number: | 2756 |
Feature : | Mud flow |
Grouping : | mass movements |
Discipline : | geomorphology |
Year : | 2010 |
Locality : | Rwanguba |
Country : | D.R.Congo |
Region - tribe : | Rutshuru |
Physiographic region : | Rift Kivu |
Notice : | During the heaviest rains of the rainy season, slopes steeper than 25° constantly undergo mass wasting. Here the mudflow arrived in the Rutshuru river and temporary dammed it. Natural risk. Natural hazard. |
Reference : | BADRIYO Agama Innocent, 2010 Image 2756. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/nl/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |