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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] Rivers have a natural tendency to cut through underlying surfaces, eventually wearing away rock layers as ...
Inscription. 1979 (3rd Session) Grand Canyon National Park, located in northwestern Arizona, is the 15th site in the United States to have been named as a national park. The park's central feature is the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, which is often considered one of the Wonders of the World.
The Grand Canyon [a] is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,093 feet or 1,857 meters). [6] : 902.
Sport cycles. Revenue. 646,000,000 Euro (2022) Number of employees. 800+ [2] (October 2016) Website. canyon.com. Canyon Bicycles GmbH (abbr.: Canyon) is a German distributor and partly manufacturer of road bikes, mountain bikes, hybrid bikes, triathlon bikes and e-bikes based in Koblenz, Germany .
Fort George Canyon, British Columbia. Fraser Canyon, British Columbia. French Bar Canyon, British Columbia. Giscome Canyon, British Columbia. Grand Canyon of the Stikine, British Columbia. Great Canyon (Homathko River), British Columbia. The Green Bowl, British Columbia. Hagwilget Canyon, British Columbia.
A slot canyon is a long, narrow channel or drainageway with sheer rock walls that are typically eroded into either sandstone or other sedimentary rock. A slot canyon has depth-to-width ratios that typically exceed 10:1 over most of its length and can approach 100:1. The term is especially used in the semiarid southwestern United States and ...
Antelope Canyon. / 36.9527664°N 111.4412683°W / 36.9527664; -111.4412683. Navajo Upper Antelope Canyon is a slot canyon in the American Southwest, on Navajo land east of Lechee, Arizona. It includes six separate, scenic slot canyon sections on the Navajo Reservation, referred to as Upper Antelope Canyon (or The Crack), Rattle Snake ...
Waimea Canyon State Park encompasses 1,866 acres (7.5 km 2) and is a popular tourist attraction on the island. It provides a wilderness area with numerous hiking trails. It can be accessed from Waimea on Hawaiʻi state road 550, which is 18 miles long and leads up to Kōkeʻe State Park. The island of Niʻihau, only a short distance west of ...