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The gorge has been a centre of human settlement since Neolithic times, including a Saxon palace.
Cheddar, its surrounding villages and specifically the gorge has been subject to flooding.
The island has a number of gorges such as the famous gorge of Samaria, Imbros gorge, Kourtaliotiko gorge, Ha gorge, Platania gorge, the Gorge of the Dead ( at Kato Zakros, Sitia ) and Richtis Gorge and waterfall at Exo Mouliana in Sitia.
Russia has attempted to attack the Chechen militants in the gorge.
Georgia has also accused Russia of carrying out bombing raids in the gorge region in which at least one Georgian civilian was believed to have perished.
A human-made dam in the gorge has created Lake Crowley, a partial restoration of the original lake.
The Mummel River has formed the deep ' V ' shaped gorge of the Mummel Gulf, which exceeds 400 m in the head of this gorge.
The gorge has been carved by the Lennard River and is over 3 km long and about 100m wide with walls to a height of 30m in places.
The gorge has been carved out by Lawn Hill Creek, which flows all year and is fed by numerous freshwater springs from the limestone plateau to the west.
The river has cut a 10 km long gorge through hard trap rock.
But the province has some very interesting places to visit, like the gorge of El Chorro, near Álora, the Torcal de Antequera, the Moorish-Mudéjar district of Frigiliana, the Dolmen of Menga or the Caves of Nerja.
) Its highway access is via Route 248, which extends through the southern gorge of the river to connect Lehighton with the Lehigh Valley and has nearby interchanges in Palmerton and Bowmanstown.
The park has views of the Spokane Falls, and holds a number of civic attractions, including a Skyride that is a rebuilt gondola that carries visitors across the falls from high above the river gorge, a 5-story IMAX theater, and a small amusement park ( which is converted into an ice-skating rink during the winter months ).
The Avon Gorge has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest because it supports some rare fauna and flora, including species unique to the gorge.
Although a number of European explorers contemplated tracing the course of the Blue Nile from its confluence with the White Nile to Lake Tana, its gorge, which begins a few miles inside the Ethiopian border, has discouraged all attempts since Frédéric Cailliaud's attempt in 1821.
During warmer periods the water flowed underground through the permeable limestone, creating the caves and leaving the gorge dry, so that today much of the gorge has no river until the underground Cheddar Yeo river emerges in the lower part from Gough's Cave.
Longleat Estate has fenced off a large part of its land and has introduced goats, as part of a programme to encourage the biodiversity of the area ; the goats were intended to replace the sheep that grazed in the gorge until the 1970s.
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Two additional trenches, about 50 metres wide, have been built to keep the inner city free of water from the Elbe, by dissipating the water downstream through the inner city's gorge portion.
Over the last twenty years accessible areas of the gorge have been revegetated by contractors working for National Parks SA.
Despite the insecure gorge, there have been no accidents at the site, but there have been suicides and suicide attempts.
Colonel George Mackinnon, who had been sent out with a small army with the goal of arresting the chief, was attacked in a narrow gorge on 24 December 1850 by a large number of Xhosa gunmen.
They have also shown fondness for large insects and frogs, and though highly terrestrial, have been known to climb trees to gorge on emerging cicadas.
Vahan deployed the Imperial Army facing east, with a front about long, as he was trying to cover the whole area between the Yarmouk gorge in the south and the Roman road to Egypt in the north, and substantial gaps had been left between the Byzantine divisions.
The gorge has been immortalized in Russian poetry, notably by Lermontov in The Demon ; it has become known as one of the most romantic places in the Caucasus.
The castle occupies a dominating position on the edge of the gorge above the river but unfortunately is no longer occupied by a Rattray, having been sold in 2010.
Evidence of the " buried gorge " of the previous river has been found when wells have been drilled.
Running south west from the village is Lydford Gorge, a 1. 5-mile ( 2. 4-km ) wooded gorge which has been cut through the slate rock by the River Lyd.
SADE stated that the geology of the gorge had been studied, including analysis of ancient landslides, and that the mountain was believed to be sufficiently stable.
Significantly older treasures have been unearthed in the geographically less spectacular gorge of Gospodin Vir: in the 1960s the archaeological survey Lepenski Vir was unearthed, the most significant in southeastern Europe.
The gorge had been designated as a land conservancy, a forest buffer established in 1902 that nothing could be built on.
Paddling through Roan Mtn State Park has been done many times but is not as well documented as the popular gorge section downstream.
The river flows through a deep gorge which has been eroded through sandstone of the Pennsylvanian Period.
Due to its geology and ecology, an area of of the gorge and surrounding woodland has been protected as a biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ), the original notification taking place in 1952.
There have been at least three fatal drownings in the Tariffville Gorge section, primarily people who were not properly prepared or trained for the heavy rapids and pinning obstacles in the gorge.
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This was identified across a gorge where a platform was formed from small stones.
* The landslide around 200BC which formed Lake Waikaremoana on the North Island of New Zealand, where a large block of the Ngamoko Range slid and dammed a gorge of Waikaretaheke River, forming a natural reservoir up to 248 metres deep.
The impressive eastern entrance leads steeply down through a dark, narrow gorge ( in places only wide ) called the Siq (" the shaft "), a natural geological feature formed from a deep split in the sandstone rocks and serving as a waterway flowing into Wadi Musa.
Within the park, there are three large waterfalls on the Genesee River and as many as fifty waterfalls found on tributaries that flow into it ; the gorge formed by the river, with rock walls rising up to in places and which narrow to across above the middle of the three falls, prompted the area's reputation as the " Grand Canyon of the East ".
Cut Bank is a city in and the county seat of Glacier County, Montana, United States located just east-south-east of the " cut bank " ( gorge ) geographical feature which formed canyon-like along the eponymously named Cut Bank Creek river.
The gorge was formed by meltwater floods during the cold periglacial periods which have occurred over the last 1. 2 million years.
In the south of the district the river runs through a narrow gorge, which is formed by two mountain chains, the Wiehen Hills in the west and the Wesergebirge in the east.
As far north as the gorge of the Missouri river in Montana, the Front Range, facing the Great Plains, is a rather simple uplift, usually formed by upturning the flanking strata, less often by a fault.
The 200m deep gorge was formed about a million years ago when movements along a fault in the Earth's crust steepened the river's gradient.
** Glacial features: Driftless topography, sub-glacially formed gorge
On July 18, 1970, a 65-year-old Wallenda performed a high-wire walk, also known as a skywalk, across the Tallulah Gorge, a gorge formed by the Tallulah River in Georgia.
Cable moulding trim surrounds most of the openings and, around the perimeter of the room, at the intersection of walls and ceiling, is a deep and ornate plaster crown moulding formed by a godroon textured frieze and a heavy dentiled bed-mould between layers of talon and gorge mouldings.
Originally, geologists believed the Grand Coulee was formed by a glacier diverting the Columbia River but it was revealed in the mid-late 20th century that massive floods from Lake Missoula carved most of the gorge.
It was settled to make it at the Angostura de Paine, a gorge that formed an easily defended bottleneck, which seemed to be the most logical plan considering that the local forces were outnumbered.
Both parks are located along Sugar Creek, and both feature the gorge system formed by the drainage of the creek as it cuts down through sandstone bedrock.
This river is unusual, in that it passes from hill country to plains through a gorge cut into much higher country, an indication that the hills have risen since the river formed.
It ran for down the valley of the River Hamps as far as Beeston Tor, before turning up the limestone gorge that the River Manifold had formed, through to Hulme End ().
The Ironbridge Gorge is a deep gorge formed by the River Severn in Shropshire, England.
The Tallulah Gorge is a gorge that is formed by the Tallulah River cutting through the Tallulah Dome rock formation.
The gorge Ásbyrgi was formed by the river in the shape of a horseshoe.
Further along, it runs through High Falls Gorge at the Wilmington Notch, a gorge formed by a fault zone, with cliffs on one side and cliffs on the other.
The western gorge was formed by the Mzimkulu river.
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