But the book is much more than a litany of praise from past visitors to the gorge. It is a fascinating journey through the human history of one of America’s original wilderness areas, designated ...

Like canyons, gorges can also be formed with water. Oftentimes, the tectonic movement that initially forms a gorge also redirects rivers into formation, which then further cuts the gorge deeper.

In honor of the 25th anniversary of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act, signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on Nov. 17, 1986, come a couple of notable efforts to share the ...

Uppermost Cambrian and lowest Ordovician slope deposits in Highgate Gorge, northwestern Vermont, yield a succession of conodont faunas (and a few associated trilobite species) similar to that observed ...

Related: These clues suggest that Hells Canyon formed when water diverted from Lake Idaho into the current route of the gorge to form what's now the Snake River. The lake may have spilled over ...

Lake Canyon Gorge, a 23-feet- (7-meter-) deep canyon in Comal County, Texas, was carved in just three days by a flood in 2002. The flood scoured a swath of greenery, leaving sand-colored bedrock ...

The gorge formed after an earthquake in 1999 that lifted the ground over a distance of a kilometre, blocking a river. By 2004, the river had broken through a chink in the blockage.