* Cañon or canyon, a deep valley between cliffs

Lake Nasser's waters fill the area through Lower Nubia ( Upper Egypt and northern Sudan ) within the narrow canyon between the cliffs of sandstone and granite created by the flow of the river over many centuries.

The only way to reach Colchis was to sail through the Symplegades ( Clashing Rocks ), huge rock cliffs that came together and crushed anything that traveled between them.

The rock-cut tombs of a Herodian and Hasmonean era cemetery lie in the lowest part of the cliffs between Nuseib al-Aweishireh and Jebel Quruntul in Jericho and were used between 100 BCE and 68 CE.

On these islands, it shares some of the same cliff habitat as the Black-legged Kittiwake, though there is some localized segregation between the species on given cliffs.

After Joseph told her to look between the cliffs at Lyme Regis and Charmouth, Mary found the skeleton — 17 feet long in all ( 5. 2m )— a few months later.

The Romans called it ’’ Portus Dubris ’’; the modern name was in use at least by the time Shakespeare wrote King Lear ( between 1603 and 1606 ), in which the town and its cliffs play a prominent role.

On the coast between Calamosca and Poetto Beaches among the cliffs of the Sella del Diavolo, lays Cala Fighera, a crystal clear small bay famous among rock climbers and the gay community

The Calanques, also known as the Massif des Calanques, are a dramatic feature of the Provence coast, a 20-km long series of narrow inlets in the cliffs of the coastline between Marseille on the west and Cassis on the east.

Most of these landscapes alternate between rough cliffs and fine sand beaches ; the region of the Algarve is recognized for its tourist-friendly sand beaches, while at the same time its steep coastlines around Cape St. Vincent is well known for steep and foreboding cliffs.

Bound at either end by rocky cliffs, the Omaha Beach crescent presented a gently sloping tidal area averaging 300 yards ( 275 m ) between low and highwater marks.

It stands on the cliffs between Trevena and Tintagel Castle and is listed Grade I.

The tides that are eroding away the cliffs are between 10. 7 meters and 14. 7 meters high on average.

A canyon ( occasionally spelled cañon ) or gorge is a deep ravine between cliffs often carved from the landscape by a river.

Folkestone Junction station was then opened and construction through the cliffs between Dover & Folkestone commenced.

This 3, 143-foot peak, located between Helen and Cleveland, is dramatically rimmed by sheer cliffs and has the distinction of being the highest point on Georgia's Piedmont Plateau.

Shandong Peninsula has a rocky coastline with cliffs, bays, and islands ; the large Laizhou Bay, the southernmost of the three bays of Bohai Sea, is found to the north, between Dongying and Penglai ; Jiaozhou Bay, which is much smaller, is found to the south, next to Qingdao.

The shape of Hart's Location is unusual: about long and wide, with crooked boundaries that echo the paths of the upper Saco River and U. S. Route 302 ( near the centerline of the town ), pinched from both sides between steep mountains and in some areas sheer cliffs above.

From a military perspective, the area was useful for it high bayside cliffs, which allowed for strategic observation of ships traveling between New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean.

Bedrock exposures of Cambrian-aged Conococheague limestone and dolomite are frequent in the town, and form cliffs between the settled area and the Potomac River.

Wemyss Castle ( pronounced ) is situated on the cliffs between the villages of East Wemyss and West Wemyss in Fife, Scotland.

Unlike the previous installment, which featured a pirate high-seas adventure theme, this game has more of a mix between a mechanical theme ( especially the technological island of Mekanos ) and a generic theme similar to the first game, but unlike Donkey Kong Countrys often tropical sceneries, this game features locations much more similar to northern maritime and continental climates, including the presence of evergreen and deciduous forests, snowy mountains, cliffs, waterfalls and a group of allies called Brothers Bear.

There are about 350 officially graded rock climbing routes on the 27 cliffs that make up Cheddar Gorge, which are generally open to climbers between 1 October and 15 March each year.

And both Blue and Red can jump up cliffs.

Anning searched for fossils in the area's Blue Lias cliffs, particularly during the winter months when landslides exposed new fossils that had to be collected quickly before they were lost to the sea.

Blue Lias cliffs, Lyme Regis

The source of most of these fossils was the coastal cliffs around Lyme Regis, part of a geological formation known as the Blue Lias.

It is part of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, and primarily encompasses the valley of the Nattai River, which is surrounded by spectacular sandstone cliffs.

Blue Lias cliffs at Lyme Regis

The Bay occupies the sweeping arc of coastline between the wave-cut platform of Jurassic Blue Lias at the northern tip of the Quantock Hills and the cliffs of Carboniferous Dolomites and Limestone at Brean Down which project into the Severn Estuary and provide some degree of protection from the erosive tidal currents.

Numerous " Blue Caves ", are cut into cliffs around Cape Skinari, and accessible only by small boats.

Well-known outcrops include the White Cliffs of Dover, the southern coastal cliffs of the Isle of Wight and the quarries and motorway cuttings at Blue Bell Hill, Kent, ( which has been classified as a Site of Special Scientific Interest ) and at the Stokenchurch Gap on the Oxfordshire / Buckinghamshire border where the M40 motorway cuts through the Aston Rowant NNR.

The soft sandstone of the Blue Mountains is easily eroded over time by wind, rain and rivers and the cliffs surrounding the Jamison Valley are being slowly broken up.

It is named after its sheer cliffs of dark-colored biotite gneiss and encompasses some of the most outstanding countryside in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains.

The Three Sisters ( Australia ) | Three Sisters and surrounding cliffs of the Blue Mountains ( Australia ) | Blue Mountains.

Sydney ’ s famous harbour and the sculptured cliffs of the Blue Mountains are signature formations of relatively hard upper strata of sandstone.

In 1813, Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Wentworth succeeded in crossing the formidable barrier of forested gulleys and sheer cliffs presented by the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, by following the ridges instead of looking for a route through the valleys.

However, observations of Dione, which has an even darker trailing hemisphere and similar but more prominent bright streaks, show that the streaks are actually ice cliffs resulting from extensive fracturing of the moon's surface.

Other videos show goats being dragged off cliffs to their deaths before being fed upon, and in one case being carried fully away by the leg, though the animals appear to be juveniles.

The cliffs on the eastern side of this headland show the only preserved exposures of Moine metasediments west of the main outcrop of the Moine Thrust in Scotland ( as a result of thrusting and later normal-faulting ) and excellent machair examples have developed between the cliff top and the dunes, partly due to the high sea-shell content of the sands in the Durness area.

Both sides of the range show extensive evidence of glaciation during recent ice ages, including U-shaped canyons, moraines, and steeply carved granite mountains, cliffs, and cirques.