A narrow valley with steep, rocky walls, generally smaller and more confined than a canyon, cut by a river or stream through resistant rock, often at a location where the channel is forced through a particularly hard or narrow band of bedrock. Gorges frequently mark a river's passage through a mountain range or a resistant ridge that the surrounding lowland lacks.
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Wikidata Q31696398, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Canyon, Wikipedia
Shaped By: Erosion, LeadQuote, Shaped By: Erosion, Lead
A canyon (from Spanish cañón; archaic British English spelling: cañon), 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.
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