Sentences with phrase «carving deep gorges»

The river rises near Mont - aux - Sources and flows 2 000 kilometres across the country, traversing major rock formations, carving deep gorges and canyons in old granite and ancient quartzites, defying gravity down waterfalls, and flooding plains used for farming, en route.

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He spent his lifetime piecing together the story of how a raging wall of water hundreds of feet high roared across eastern Washington, carving deep channels before cascading down the Columbia River Gorge as a wall of water high enough to turn Oregon's Willamette Valley into a vast backwater lake.

The Evidence: During a 2002 expedition, geologist David Montgomery studied how the Tsangpo River once sawed through rock, carving the world's deepest gorge.

Contrasting attractions between Caliente and Ely include Cathedral Gorge State Park's fascinating rock formations, carved deep into the desert.

In the late 1700s, enslaved Africans carved a gorge, more than 100 feet deep, into a solid limestone hillside with axes and other sharp hand tools.

White - water raft alongside forested valleys, deep gorges and mountains carved by glaciers on the furious Franklin River, in the World Heritage - listed Franklin - Gordon Wild Rivers National Park.

Here a dramatic terrain of deep, winding gorges and wind - carved cliffs that are 400 million years old offers hiking, picnicking, abseiling, horse riding, canoeing and other activities amid classic outback scenery.