Carving the landscape
by 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.
Taken on 27
September
2010
Submitted on 8 Mar 2011
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- Africa (311)
- Northern Africa (124)
- Morocco (37)
- Exact location (-8.9700 W, 30.4600 N)
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erosion, gully erosion, land degradation, land levelling
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Credit: Irene Marzolff (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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