Palouse Falls is the jewel of Eastern Washington, and only about a 2 hour drive or so from Spokane. It drops an astounding 186 ft. on the Palouse River, and flows fairly well year-round. In the spring, the river is raging with snow melt, and the waterfall is an absolutely incredible ...
Dropping for 256 feet, Fall Creek Falls is the highest free-fall waterfall east of the Mississippi River. Located in the eastern portion of the rugged Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee, the waterfalls are part ofFall Creek Falls State Parkand can be accessed via a three-mile round-trip hike th...
If you're looking for waterfalls in New Jersey, place names can be deceptive. Scudders Falls on the Delaware River just above Trenton is no more than a rocky whitewater rapid caused by the remains of an old dam and Saxton Falls on the border between Morris and Warren counties is a man-...
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NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Apr. 11, Aug. 10, and Dec. 4: Mercury at greatest eastern elongation When positioned at its greatest eastern elongation, Mercury is closer to Earth and at its furthest angular point away from the sun. Thou...
Examples that I could think of that would fall under this category includeMinaret Fallsin the Eastern Sierra of California,Dip Fallsin Tasmania, Australia,Chilnualna Falls’ uppermost sectionin Yosemite National Park, California, andTokopah Fallsin Sequoia National Park, California. ...
The typical fall-line example, however, occurs at the junction of the crystalline rocks of the Appalachian Mountains and the sedimentary coastal plain along the eastern United States. A number of major cities, including Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., are a geographic consequence ...