The erosive action of the Colorado has been severely constrained by the building of the Glen Canyon Dam, which ended the annual spring floods, but there is still a lot of water flowing relatively quickly through a very narrow gorge. Before building the dam the Colorado River had spring floods...
Hiccup tells his dragon to stay hidden; however, the wild Gronckle that is on the roof attacks Toothless, knocking them both into a small gorge. Toothless continues his fight with the Gronckle by avoiding its shots. Once the wild dragon is out of ammo, Toothless fires two plasma blasts to...
Together with his team, he analyzed 1.7 million-year-old sand-stones that formed in an ancient river at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. The region is famous for the large number of human fossils(化石) that have been discovered there, alongside an impressive assembly of stone tools. The sand-...
The Alcantara Gorge is a spectacular canyon bordered by50-meter-high basalt walls, formed by the Alcantara River and by lava flows from Etna.The Alcantara Riverruns for 53 km from the Nebrodi Mountains to the Ionian Sea, near Messina. It’s one of the few rivers in Sicily to run year-r...
Then there's Valles Marineris. It's the largest canyon in the solar system and it cuts a jagged gorge across the surface of Mars that's more than 1,864 miles (3,000 kilometers) long and 372 miles (600 kilometers) across. For reference, the distance from Atlanta to Los Angeles is ab...
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Lijia Gorge reservoirs belong to the second step hydropower stations in upper Yellow River within the territory of the famousKanbula National Forest Park,surrounding by the danxia landform of the mountains formed by red sandstone. Under the sun, adret is red brown, ubac is deep brown, and the...
While today mostly known for its iconic sport pitches—and as the birthplace of sport climbing in America—Smith Rock is also home to myriad trad opportunities, from multi-pitch routes on its welded-tuff spires to perfect basalt cracks in the Crooked River Gorge. ...
The history of suspension bridges is liberally sprinkled with examples of successful bridges that were widely believed to be impossible when proposed by a visionary engineer. One example was a railway bridge Roebling constructed between 1851-1855 across the Niagra River gorge. The first truss-...
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