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    3 days ago · The Grand Canyon is a river valley in the Colorado Plateau that exposes uplifted Proterozoic and Paleozoic strata, and it is also one of the six distinct physiographic sections of the Colorado Plateau province.

  2. 4 days ago · In this 90-mile (145-km) stretch the Rhine has cut a deep and winding gorge between the steep, slate-covered slopes of the Hunsrück mountains to the west and the Taunus Mountains to the east.

  3. 3 days ago · Sometimes described as a plateau but actually comprising steep ridges and the valleys of streams draining to the Severn and Wye, its boundaries with the surrounding cultivated and ancient parochial lands are in most places defined by a scarp where the underlying carboniferous limestone of the region outcrops.

  4. 5 days ago · A V-shaped valley gets its name from its distinctive shape, which resembles the letter “V”. These valleys are formed by strong streams that have cut down into the surrounding rock through a process called downcutting.

  5. 5 days ago · Indus River, great trans-Himalayan river of South Asia. It is one of the longest rivers in the world, with a length of some 2,000 miles (3,200 km). The earliest chronicles and hymns of peoples of ancient India, the Rigveda, composed about 1500 BCE, mention the river, which is the source of the country’s name.

  6. 3 days ago · James River, river in central Virginia, U.S., formed by the junction of the Jackson and Cowpasture rivers and cutting across the Great Appalachian Valley in northern Botetourt county.

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