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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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.
The Bluestone River and the rugged gorge it has carved make up a richly diverse and scenic area of the Appalachian Plateau.The river cuts into Mississippian and Pennsylvanian sedimentary rocks of the Mauch Chunk and Pottsville groups in southern West Virginia according to geologic mapping carried out by researchers at nearby Concord University. [3]