Carving the landscape
Irene Marzolff
Dep. of Physical Geography, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Gully erosion dissects a large sediment fan emerging from the High Atlas into the Souss Basin, Morocco. Opposite older gully systems at the left wadi bank near La Glalcha village, a new gully system at the right wadi bank has developed during heavy rainfalls in February 2010, cutting 5 m deep into recent infillings of an older system which can still be traced by the dried weed cover: The land-levelling measures, intended to regain badland for a tomato plantation, have only resulted in reactivation of an abating sediment source.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Irene Marzolff (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
13.5 MB
Aspect
2005:1504
Width
4010 px
Height
3008 px
Brand
Panasonic
Model
Lumix GF1 with Lumix G 1.7/20 mm
Coordinates
30.4600, -8.9700
Tint
Brownish pink
Submitted
8 March 2011
Taken
27 September 2010
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