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The 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]
Niagara Gorge is an 11 km (6.8 mi) long canyon carved by the Niagara River along the Canada–United States border, between the U.S. state of New York and the Canadian province of Ontario. [1] It begins at the base of Niagara Falls and ends downriver at the edge of the geological formation known as the Niagara Escarpment near Queenston, Ontario ...
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Todgha gorge at its narrow mouth during flooding. The last 600 metres (1,969 ft) of the Todgha gorge are the most spectacular. Here the canyon narrows to a flat stony track, in places as little as 10 metres (33 ft) wide, with sheer and smooth rock walls up to 160 metres (525 ft) high on each side.
Submarine canyons (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Canyons and gorges" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
In that distance, the Colorado River drops 2,000 feet (610 m) and has excavated an estimated 1,000 cubic miles (4,200 km 3) of sediment to form the canyon. [70] This part of the river bisects the 9,000-foot (2,700 m)-high Kaibab Uplift [ 71 ] and passes seven plateaus (the Kaibab , Kanab , and Shivwits plateaus bound the northern part of the ...
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The Columbia River Gorge is a canyon of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Up to 4,000 feet (1,200 m) deep, the canyon stretches for over eighty miles (130 km) as the river winds westward through the Cascade Range, forming the boundary between the state of Washington to the north and Oregon to the south. [1]