See also:

• CANYON (Anglicized form of Span. canon, a tube, pipe or cannon; the Spanish form being also frequently written)

CANYON (Anglicized See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of Span. See also:

• CANON

canon, a See also:

• TUBE (Lat. tuba)

tube, See also:

• PIPE

pipe or See also:

• CANNON (a word common to Romance languages, from the Lat. canna, a reed, tube, with the addition of the augmentative termination -on, -one)

cannon; the See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish form being also frequently written)  , a type of valley with huge precipitous sides, such as the See also:

• GRAND

Grand Canyons of the See also:

• COLORADO

Colorado and the Yellowstone See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers, and the See also:

• GORGE

gorge of the See also:

• NIAGARA
• NIAGARA, FORT

Niagara See also:

• RIVER

river below the falls, due to rapid stream erosion in a " See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young " See also:

• LAND

land . A river saws its channel vertically down-wards, and a See also:

• SWIFT
• SWIFT, JONATHAN (1667—1745)

swift stream erodes chiefly at the bottom . In See also:

• RAINY, ROBERT (1826-1906)

rainy regions the valleys thus formed are widened out by slope-See also:

• WASH, THE

wash and the resultant valley-slopes are See also:

• GENTLE (through the Fr. gentil, from Lat. gentilis, belonging to the same gens, or family)

gentle, but in arid regions there is very little See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side-See also:

• EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension of the valleys and the river cuts its way downwards, leaving almost See also:

• VERTICAL (from Lat. vertex, highest point)

vertical cliffs above the stream . If the stream be swift as in the western See also:

• PLATEAU (a French term, older platel, for a flat piece of wood, metal, &c., from plat, flat)
• PLATEAU, JOSEPH ANTOINE FERDINAND (1801-1883)

plateau of See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North See also:

• AMERICA

America, the cutting See also:

• ACTION

action will be rapid . The ideal conditions for developing a See also:

• CANYON (Anglicized form of Span. canon, a tube, pipe or cannon; the Spanish form being also frequently written)

canyon are: See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• ALTITUDE (Lat. altitudo, from altus, high)

altitude and slope causing swift streams, arid conditions with See also:

• ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence of side-wash, and hard See also:

• ROCK
• ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
• ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

rock horizontally bedded which will hold the walls up . A B C D .