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This list of canyons and gorges includes both land and submarine canyons with the land canyons being sorted by continent and then by country. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
The opening credits of the 1976 film Grizzly were filmed while flying through the gorge, and several key shots were taken in one of the gift shops on the gorge rim. On July 18, 1970, the then 65-year-old Karl Wallenda performed a high-wire walk across the Tallulah Gorge. Parts of the 1972 film Deliverance were filmed in the gorge.
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 ...
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 centerpiece of the 778-acre (3.15 km 2) [4] park is a 400-foot-deep (120 m) narrow gorge cut through rock by Glen Creek, a stream that was left hanging when glaciers of the Ice age deepened the Seneca valley, increasing the tributary stream gradient to create rapids and waterfalls wherever there were layers of hard rock.
The canyon is a deep gorge carved by the Apple River when its course was diverted during the Illinoian Stage, 132,000–300,000 years ago. The old river channel eventually filled and became the South Fork Apple River. Millville was located at the confluence of these two rivers; the site is marked by a large rock formation and two plaques. [2]
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Formations in the gorge as observed from Interstate 15. The Virgin River Gorge, located between St. George, Utah, and Beaver Dam, Arizona, is a long canyon carved out by the Virgin River in northwest Arizona. [1] The Virgin River created the topography of both Zion National Park and the Virgin River Gorge.