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  2. List of canyons and gorges in Utah - Wikipedia

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    Price Canyon: Carbon, Utah Price River: US-6: Union Pacific Railroad Provo Subdivision (ex-D&RGW) Provo Canyon: Utah, Wasatch Provo River: US-189: Heber Valley Historic Railroad (ex-D&RGW) Red Canyon: Daggett Green River: Red Canyon: Garfield fork of the Sevier River: SR-12: Red Butte Canyon: Salt Lake Red Butte Creek: Red Butte Canyon Road ...

  3. Ashley National Forest - Wikipedia

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    It is in Flaming Gorge, a partially submerged canyon on the Green River. The National Recreation Area contains 207,363 acres (839 km 2) of both land and water, which is divided almost evenly in Utah and Wyoming. The canyon was named by explorer John Wesley Powell, who upon first looking at the red gorge believed that it was on fire. [6]

  4. Category:Canyons and gorges of Utah - Wikipedia

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    Curry Canyon (Utah) D. Daves Hollow; ... Gunnison Valley (Sanpete and Sevier counties, Utah) H. Harker Canyon (Tooele County, Utah) ... Virgin River Gorge; W. Weber ...

  5. Canyon - Wikipedia

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    Grand Canyon, Arizona, at the confluence of the Colorado River and Little Colorado River.. A canyon (from Spanish: cañón; archaic British English spelling: cañon), [1] gorge or chasm, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. [2]

  6. Valley - Wikipedia

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    The valley of Halikko River in Halikko, Finland Valley of Palakaria river springing from Vitosha Mountain, seen in the background, in Bulgaria. The development of a river valley is affected by the character of the bedrock over which the river or stream flows, the elevational difference between its top and bottom, and indeed the climate.

  7. Canyonlands National Park - Wikipedia

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    The Colorado River flows through Cataract Canyon below its confluence with the Green River. The Island in the Sky district is a broad and level mesa in the northern section of the park, between the Colorado and Green rivers. The district has many viewpoints overlooking the White Rim, a sandstone bench 1,200 feet (370 m) below the Island, and ...

  8. List of mountain ranges of Utah - Wikipedia

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    Buckskin Mountains (Arizona-Utah) Bull Valley Mountains; Burbank Hills; Canyon Mountains; Cedar Mountains (Iron County, Utah) Cedar Mountains (Tooele County, Utah) Confusion Range; Conger Range; Crawford Mountains; Cricket Mountains; Deep Creek Mountains; Drum Mountains; Dugway Range; East Tintic Mountains; Escalante Mountains; Fish Lake ...

  9. San Rafael Swell - Wikipedia

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    The Little Grand Canyon on the San Rafael River The San Rafael Swell was formed when deeply buried Precambrian rocks faulted , or broke, during the Laramide orogeny , about 60 million years ago. These "basement" rocks below the present-day Swell moved upwards relative to the surrounding areas and caused the overlying sedimentary rocks to fold ...