Slide 1: October 1994 SAR Image
of the Virunga Volcanoes. |
Slide 2: Lava map of Nyamuragira
volcano in D.R. Congo from SAR image. |
Slide 3: Tutsi herders on promontory
overlooking Virunga Chain of Volcanoes Sabynyo, Gahinga and Muhabura. |
Slide 4 : Beans and bananas growing
on fairly recent volcanic lava flows. |
Slide 5: Farming on steep slopes,
e.g. cinder cones in Gisenyi Prefecture, Rwanda. |
Slide 6: Mikeno (left) and Karisimbi
(right) volcanoes. |
Slide 7: A lavatube collapse -
Gisenyi, Prefecture, Rwanda. |
Slide 8: Extinct cinder cones
near Mudende Commune, Gisenyi Precture |
Slide 9: Nyiragongo volcano in
Zaire (DR Congo). |
Slide 10: A fumerole on the sides
of Nyiragongo showing escaping gas as well as charred vegetation from a
volcanic event in the late 1980s. |
Slide 11: The main crater of
Mt. Karisimbi and the Lake inside the crater |
Slide 12: Lava flow on lower
slopes of Nyiragongo on the D.R. Congo (Zaire) side of the border. |
Slide 13: Recent lava flow from
Nyiragongo. |
Slide 14: The town of Gisenyi
on Lake Kivu |
Slide 15: Summit of Mt.
Karisimbi with Mikeno in background. |
Slide 16: Lava-blocked Lake Ruhondo
- seen from Buberuka Highlands in Ruhengeri Prefecture. |
Slide 17: Lake Bulera - another
“lava-blocked” lake on the Mukungwa watershed. |
Slide 18: Heavy erosion on slopes
and heavy silt load on branch of the upper Nyabarongo river. |
Slide 19: The Rugezi swamp, a
“drowned valley,” left at a high altitude after uplift of parts of the
Buberuka Highlands. |
Slide 20: Outflow point of the
Rugezi swamp. |
Slide 21: The Rugezi Falls
- a major “knickpoint”. |
Slide 22: The Western Rift Valley
escarpment north of Rutshuru. |
Slide 23: The Rutshuru river
within Virunga National Park (DR Congo) Zaire
|
Slide 24: Fisherfolk on
shores of Lake Edward near mouth of the Rutshuru river. |
