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