Canyon

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Canyon

Coordinates49.08°, -116.45°

Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

A canyon, 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. Rivers have a natural tendency to cut through underlying surfaces, eventually wearing away rock layers as sediments are removed downstream. A river bed will gradually reach a baseline elevation, which is the same elevation as the body of water into which the river drains. The processes of weathering and erosion will form canyons when the river's headwaters and estuary are at significantly different elevations, particularly through regions where softer rock layers are intermingled with harder layers more resistant to weathering.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Nearby places in British Columbia

• Huscroft
  4.5 mi away
• Rykerts
  5.7 mi away
• West Creston
  7.7 mi away
• Kingsgate
  13.3 mi away
• Curzon Junction
  13.9 mi away
• Ymir
  37.4 mi away
• Old Town
  39.1 mi away
• Porto Rico
  39.9 mi away
• Gray Creek
  40.6 mi away
• Procter
  43.7 mi away
• Balfour
  44.2 mi away
• Crawford Bay
  44.5 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Canyon

Preliminary excavations at a cobble tool site (DjRi 7) in the Fraser Canyon, British Columbia

Donald H. Mitchell · 1965

The Gething Formation at Peace River Canyon, British Columbia

Donald F. Stott · 1969

Gething Formation at Peace River Canyon, British Columbia (Report and 1 Figure)

Geological Survey of Canada. · 1968

Esilao, a pit house village in the Fraser Canyon, British Columbia

Donald H. Mitchell · 1963

Preliminary Excavations at A Cobble Tool Site (Djr17) in the Fraser Canyon, British Columbia

National Museum of Canada. · 1965

Vanishing British Columbia

Michael Kluckner · 2005

Frommer's British Columbia and the Canyon Rockies

McRae · 2001

Fraser Canyon-Okanagan

Canada. British Columbia. Parks Branch.

Search results from Open Library.