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The North Face of North Twin Peak, Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada, 1,200 m; The west face of Notch Peak in the House Range of southwestern Utah, U.S.; a carbonate rock pure vertical drop of about 670 m (2,200 ft), with 4,450 feet (1,356 m) from the top of the cliff to valley floor (bottom of the canyon below the notch)
Cliff, the 1959 debut album by Cliff Richard "The Cliff", a short story by Charles Baxter (author) "Cliffs", a 2018 track by Toby Fox from Deltarune Chapter 1 OST from the video game Deltarune "Cliff" a song by Jay Chou from the 2003 album Yeh Hui-Mei; The Cliff (film), a 2016 Spanish thriller film
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The Old Man of the Mountain, also called the Great Stone Face and the Profile, [1] [2] was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States, that appeared to be the jagged profile of a human face when viewed from the north.
1. A mountain or hill; a cliff face or precipice. 2. Another name for a bergschrund, iceberg, or inselberg. bergschrund. Also rimaye or simply berg or schrund. A crevasse or series of parallel crevasses that opens in a glacier when a mass of moving ice detaches and pulls away from stagnant ice or firn.
The first requirement for a rock relief is a suitable face of stone; a near-vertical cliff minimizes the work required, otherwise a sloping rock face is often cut back to give a vertical area to carve. Most of the ancient Near East was well supplied with hills and mountains offering many cliff faces.
Like hurricane forecasting, projecting when and how much a cliff will erode — especially in the face of sea level rise — is in high demand. But coastal cliffs are infamously difficult to study ...