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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 .
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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]
Flaming Gorge: Daggett Green River: Flat Canyon: Juab, Sanpete Maple Creek: Flat Canyon: Sanpete SR-264: Gate Canyon: Duchesne Nine Mile Canyon Road: Glen Canyon: Garfield, Kane, San Juan Colorado River: Grandstaff Canyon: Grand unnamed tributary of the Colorado River: SR-128: name officially changed from Negro Bill Canyon in 2017 Gray Canyon ...
Chee Dale is a steep-sided gorge on the River Wye near Buxton, Derbyshire, in the Peak District of England. The Wye valley continues upstream towards Buxton as Wye Dale, while downstream are Miller's Dale village and valley. [1] Chee Dale has a protected nature reserve (close to the village of Wormhill), which is overseen by the Derbyshire ...
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 ...
Kaaterskill Clove. Kaaterskill Clove is a deep gorge, or valley, in New York's eastern Catskill Mountains, lying just west of the village of Palenville and in Haines Falls. . The clove was formed by Kaaterskill Creek, a tributary of Catskill Creek rising west of North Mountain, and is estimated by geologists to be as much as 1 million years old