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Definitions of canyon in various dictionaries:
noun - a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall
A narrow chasm with steep cliff walls, cut into the earth by running water; a gorge.
noun - a deep valley with steep sides
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| Spanish for "tube", there's a grand old one in Arizona |
| Kings is an example of this western land formation; De Chelly is another |
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| A narrow chasm with steep cliff walls, cut into the earth by running water a gorge. |
| a deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it, as found in North America. |
| a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall |
| A deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it, as found in North America. |
| a large valley with very steep sides and usually a river flowing along the bottom |
| a deep valley with steep sides and usually a river flowing along the bottom |
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A canyon (Spanish: cañón; archaic British English spelling: cañon) or gorge is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic timescales. Rivers have a natural tendency to cut through underlying surfaces, eventually wearing away rock layers as sediments are removed downstream. A river bed will gradually reach a baseline elevation, which is the same elevation as the body of water into which the river drains. The processes of weathering and erosion will form canyons when the river's headwaters and estuary are at significantly different elevations, particularly through regions where softer rock layers are intermingled with harder layers more resistant to weathering. * A canyon may also refer to a rift between two mountain peaks, such as those in ranges including the Rocky Mountains, the Alps, the Himalayas or the Andes. Usually a river or stream and erosion carve out such splits between mountains. Examples of mountain-t |