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Agawa Canyon, Ontario; Barron River (Ontario) Beggerlay Canyon, British Columbia; Big Canyon, British Columbia; Big Creek Canyon, British Columbia; Bull Canyon, British Columbia ...
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]
The following is a list of place names often used tautologically, plus the languages from which the non-English name elements have come. Tautological place names are systematically generated in languages such as English and Russian, where the type of the feature is systematically added to a name regardless of whether it contains it already.
Glen – Name for valley commonly used in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man; Gorge – Deep chasm between cliffs; Graben – Depressed block of planetary crust bordered by parallel normal faults; Gulch – Deep V-shaped valley formed by erosion; Gulf; Gully – Landform created by running water and/or mass movement eroding sharply into soil
Tallulah Gorge State Park—managed jointly by the Georgia State Parks system and Georgia Power Company, the latter of which operates the hydroelectric dam above the 600-foot (180 m)-deep Tallulah Gorge. The Tallulah River flows over six major falls between the Tallulah Falls Dam and Lake Tugalo. Since the dam was built in 1913 only a fraction ...
The Cheat River is a 78.3-mile-long (126.0 km) [5] tributary of the Monongahela River in eastern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania in the United States.Via the Ohio River, the Cheat and Monongahela are part of the Mississippi River watershed.
The gorge separates the major peaks of Dhaulagiri (8,167 m or 26,795 ft) on the west and Annapurna (8,091 m or 26,545 ft) on the east. The portion of the river directly between Dhaulagiri and Annapurna I (7 km or 4.3 mi downstream from Tukuche) is at an elevation of 2,520 m (8,270 ft), which is 5,571 m (18,278 ft) lower than Annapurna I. [4] As tectonic activity has forced the mountains higher ...
Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. Geologically, the Rio Grande Gorge is a canyon, [1] carved out by erosion over the last several million years. [2] The Rio Grande Gorge and its river follow a topographical low within the larger Rio Grande Rift; a mixture of volcanic activity, shifting tectonic plates, and erosion of layers of gravels and lava yielded the recognizable narrow, deep gorge visible today.