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The college is located on 153.4 acres (62.1 ha) of rolling, tree-dotted hills in the neighborhood of Valencia in the city of Santa Clarita in northern Los Angeles County, California . In 2007, the college opened its Canyon Country campus on a 70-acre (28 ha) site located at 17200 Sierra Highway, Santa Clarita, CA 91351.
Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment located in the Texas Panhandle near the cities of Amarillo and Canyon. As one of the largest canyons in the United States, it is roughly 25–40 mi (40–64 km) long and has an average width of 6 mi (9.7 km), but reaches a width of 20 mi (32 km) at places.
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument is a national monument protecting an archaeologically significant landscape located in the southwestern region of the U.S. state of Colorado. The monument's 176,056 acres (712.47 km 2 ) [1] are managed by the Bureau of Land Management , as directed in the presidential proclamation which created the site ...
The Hudson Canyon is the furthest to the left. 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 ...
Map of Bering Canyon and four other submarine canyons in the Bering Sea. Bering Canyon, in the Bering Sea near the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, the United States; Kaikoura Canyon, off the coast of the Kaikoura Peninsula, New Zealand; La Jolla Canyon, off the coast of La Jolla, California; Monterey Canyon, off the coast of central California, the ...
Canyonlands National Park. Canyonlands National Park is an American national park located in southeastern Utah near the town of Moab. The park preserves a colorful landscape eroded into numerous canyons, mesas, and buttes by the Colorado River, the Green River, and their respective tributaries. Legislation creating the park was signed into law ...
A canyon (from Spanish: cañón; archaic British English spelling: cañon ), [1] 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. [2] Rivers have a natural tendency to cut through underlying surfaces, eventually wearing away rock layers as ...
Agawa Canyon. / 47.45556°N 84.48944°W / 47.45556; -84.48944. The Agawa Canyon is a shallow canyon located deep in the sparsely populated Algoma District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. [1] It was created 1.2 billion years ago by faulting along the Canadian Shield and then enlarged by the erosive action of the Agawa River.