The word 'canyon' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is defined as a deep, narrow valley with steep sides usually formed by erosion from a river or other body of water. Example: The hikers were amazed by the sheer size and beauty of the Grand Canyon as they made their way along the rim trail.
And where else can you stand astride a small canyon with one foot (notionally) in America and the other in Europe?
Made in Dagenham Shifty The Firm Vera Drake All Or Nothing Made in Dagenham Doctor Who Made in Dagenham The Sweet Smell of Success Hearing that Sally Menke, Quentin Tarantino's editor, had died last week after hiking in a canyon on a sweltering day in LA, was a bitter irony.
Today, the receding water has left telltale white rings more than 30 metres up on the rock canyon walls.
This was a reasonable assumption since the canyon was formed as a crack on the chin of the 5,600-metre 5,600-metrescar, a dangerous brooding giant and the most activolcanoano in the Andes.
We came to the edge of the canyon and started down, a descent of about 50 metres into a narrow gorge with red rock walls.
It was rebuilt after a volcanic eruption in 1993 – the inhabitants deciding that their original village, tucked in the shadows of Quezala canyon, was a prime target for deadly pyroclastic flows.
These sediments form an underwater delta that has several canyon-like channels.
There is much comfort in old things.Back to top >>AucklandDOWN Auckland's charmless, canyon-like main drag, a Christmas controversy rages.
Or will they encourage their pupils to navigate their way around the globe for themselves, exploring on the World Wide Web what the Grand Canyon or the canyons of Manhattan actually look like close up, in fine detail, at first hand?
No bombs were tested during the filming, but the article quoted Robert Pendleton, director of radiological health at the University of Utah, saying radioactivity from previous blasts probably lodged in Snow Canyon.
The trial means he is suspended from duty, but somehow he and his partner (Jamie Hector, also from The Wire) end up investigating the death of an adolescent boy whose skeleton is found in Laurel Canyon.
