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5.2 New Zealand. 6 Submarine canyons ... Mizen Head, County Cork; The Scalp, County Dublin [4] Italy ... Deep Dale, Derbyshire; Ebbor Gorge, Somerset; Gordale Scar ...
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.
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 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 ...
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 Red River Gorge lies within the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky. The forest maintains 706,000 acres while the Red River Gorge consists of 29,000 acres of rugged terrain inside of it.
The gorge is surrounded by 400-foot (120 m) cliffs filled with a variety of wildlife. The upper part of the Crooked River Gorge, which are also popular among climbers, are made of columnar basalt cliffs eroded by the Crooked River since the Newberry volcanic eruption 1.2 million years ago. [1]
[1] [2] It spans the deep gorge of the Nizhu River (a tributary of the Beipan), near the town of Duge. As of 2021, the bridge is the highest in the world, with the road deck sitting over 565 metres (1,854 ft) above the floor of the gorge. [3] [4] The bridge is part of the G56 Hangzhou–Ruili Expressway between Qujing and Liupanshui.