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Canyons, the deep steep-sided clefts cut into rock by rivers, including slot canyons, river canyons and the great canyons of the American Southwest, South America, Africa and Asia. A canyon forms where a river or stream cuts down faster than the walls can wear back, usually through layered sandstone, limestone or lava, and the walls often show the rock layers like pages of a book. A landform belongs here when its cited article calls it a canyon.

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Antelope Canyon (Wikipedia)
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Navajo Upper Antelope Canyon is a slot canyon in the American Southwest, on Navajo land east of Lechee, Arizona.
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Copper Canyon (Wikipedia)
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Copper Canyon (Spanish: Barrancas del Cobre) is a system of six distinct canyons in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the southwestern part of the state of Chihuahua in northwestern Mexico that is 65,000 square kilometres (25,000 sq mi) in size.
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Grand Canyon (Wikipedia)
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The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States.
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Charyn Canyon (Wikipedia)
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Charyn Canyon (Russian: Чарынский каньон, Charynskiy kan'on), also known as the Sharyn Canyon (Kazakh: Шарын шатқалы, Sharyn shatqaly) is a canyon on the Charyn River in Kazakhstan.
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Blyde River Canyon (Wikipedia)
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The Blyde River Canyon is a 26 km long canyon located in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
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Fantasy Canyon (Wikipedia)
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Fantasy Canyon is a 10-acre (40,000 m2) canyon containing unusual rock formations that were created through erosion and weathering.
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Slot canyon (Wikipedia)
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A slot canyon is a long, narrow channel or drainageway with sheer rock walls that are typically eroded into either sandstone or other sedimentary rock.
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Chicamocha Canyon (Wikipedia)
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The Chicamocha Canyon ( CHEE-kə-MOH-chə, Spanish: Cañón del Chicamocha) is a steep sided canyon carved by the Chicamocha River in Colombia.
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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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Submarine canyon (Wikipedia)
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A submarine canyon is a steep-sided valley cut into the seabed of the continental slope, sometimes extending well onto the continental shelf, having nearly vertical walls, and occasionally having canyon wall heights of up to 5 km (3 mi), from canyon floor to canyon rim, as with the Great Bahama Canyon.
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Colca Canyon (Wikipedia)
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The Colca Canyon is a canyon of the Colca River in southern Peru, located about 160 kilometres (99 mi) northwest of Arequipa.
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Rugova Canyon (Wikipedia)
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Rugova Canyon (Albanian: Kanioni i Rugovës; Serbian: Руговска клисура / Rugovska klisura) or Rugova Gorge (Albanian: Gryka e Rugovës) is a river canyon near Peja in western Kosovo.
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Cajón del Maipo (Wikipedia)
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Cajón del Maipo is a canyon located in the Andean southeastern portion of the Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile.
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Capertee Valley (Wikipedia)
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The Capertee Valley (pronounced Kay-per-tee) is a large canyon in New South Wales, Australia, 135 km (84 mi) north-west of Sydney that is noted to be the widest canyon in the world, exceeding the Grand Canyon.
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Kitselas Canyon (Wikipedia)
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Kitselas Canyon is a canyon carved by the Skeena River in the Skeena region of west central British Columbia, Canada.
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Göynük Canyon (Wikipedia)
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Göynük Canyon (Turkish: Göynük Kanyonu) is a canyon in the Antalya Province of southwestern Turkey.
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Corral Hollow (Wikipedia)
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Corral Hollow, is a 10 miles (16 km) long canyon in a middle reach of Corral Hollow Creek, which drains the eastern flank of the Diablo Range.
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Deserters Canyon (Wikipedia)
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Deserters Canyon is on the Finlay River in the Omineca region of central British Columbia, Canada.
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Barranca de Oblatos (Wikipedia)
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Barranca de Oblatos (English: Oblatos Canyon), also known as Barranca de Huentitán, is a canyon carved by the Río Grande de Santiago in Mexico in the state of Jalisco.
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Chatra Gorge (Wikipedia)
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The Chatra Gorge is a canyon cut by the Kosi River across the Mahabharat Range in Nepal.
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Beggerlay Canyon (Wikipedia)
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Beggerlay Canyon is a canyon on the Stikine River in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, located northeast of the communities of Iskut, British Columbia and Eddontenajon Lake.
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Jamison Valley (Wikipedia)
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The Jamison Valley forms part of the Coxs River canyon system in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia.
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Coloured Canyon (Wikipedia)
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The canyon is almost 800 meters long.
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Horseshoe Canyon (Alberta) (Wikipedia)
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The canyon gets its name from its horseshoe shape, defined by two coulees that flow into the Kneehill Creek, a tributary of the Red Deer River.
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Anderson Canyon (Wikipedia)
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The canyon, Anderson Creek, and Anderson Peak (4,099 feet (1,249 m)) are south of McWay Falls and within the boundaries of Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park.
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