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The White Cliffs of DoverThe Trango Towers in Pakistan. Their vertical faces are the world's tallest cliffs. Trango Tower center; Trango Monk center left; Trango II far left; Great Trango right.Europe's highest cliff, Troll Wall in Norway, a famous BASE jumping location for jumpers from around the world.
In geography and geology, a cliff is an area of rock which has a general angle defined by the vertical, or nearly vertical. Cliffs are formed by the processes of weathering and erosion, with the effect of gravity. Cliffs are common on coasts, in mountainous areas, escarpments and along rivers. Cliffs are usually composed of rock that is resistant to weathering and erosion. The sedimentary rocks that are most likely to form cliffs include sandstone, limestone, chalk, and dolomite. Igneous rocks such as granite and basalt also often form cliffs.
An escarpment (or scarp) is a type of cliff formed by the movement of a geologic fault, a landslide, or sometimes by rock slides or falling rocks which change the differential erosion of the rock layers.
Most cliffs have some form of scree slope at their base. In arid areas or under high cliffs, they are generally exposed jumbles of fallen rock. In areas of higher moisture, a soil slope may obscure the talus. Many cliffs also feature tributary waterfalls or rock shelters. Sometimes a cliff peters out at the end of a ridge, with mushroom rocks or other types of rock columns remaining. Coastal erosion may lead to the formation of sea cliffs along a receding coastline.
The British Ordnance Survey distinguishes between around most cliffs (continuous line along the topper edge with projections down the face) and outcrops (continuous lines along lower edge).
The far southwestern aspect of Nanga Parbat's Rupal face, highest cliff (rock wall/mountain face) in the world. The steepest part of the face is 2 km to the northeast.
geography and geology, a cliff is an area of rock which has a general angle defined by the vertical, or nearly vertical. Cliffs are formed by the processes...
Sir Cliff Richard OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is a British singer and actor. He has total sales of over 21.5 million singles in the...
The White Cliffs of Dover are the region of English coastline facing the Strait of Dover and France. The cliff face, which reaches a height of 350 feet...
quotations related to Cliff Burton. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cliff Burton. Cliff Burton Family on Facebook Cliff In Our Minds – memorial...
James Chambers, OM (born 30 July 1944), known professionally as Jimmy Cliff, is a Jamaican ska, rocksteady, reggae and soul musician, multi-instrumentalist...
CliffsNotes are a series of student study guides. The guides present and create literary and other works in pamphlet form or online. Detractors of the...
In archaeology, cliff dwellings are dwellings formed by using niches or caves in high cliffs, and sometimes with excavation or additions in the way of...
Cliffdiving, cliff diving, cliff-diving or Cliff Diving, may refer to: An activity performed by the La Quebrada Cliff Divers in Acapulco, Mexico "Cliffdiving"...
Cliff Curtis (born 1968 or 1969) is a New Zealand actor. His film credits include Once Were Warriors (1994), Three Kings (1999), Blow (2001), Training...
Cliff Bleszinski (/bləˈzɪnski/; born February 12, 1975), popularly known as CliffyB, is an American video game designer, known for his work on the Unreal...
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Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The structure built by the Ancestral Puebloans is located in Mesa Verde National Park in...
as his alter-ego Charley Weaver on numerous television and radio shows. Cliff Arquette was born on December 27 1905, in Toledo, Ohio, the youngest of...
Cliff Evans may refer to: Clif Evans (born 1948), politician in Manitoba, Canada Clifford R. Evans, Canadian trade unionist and UFCW leader Cliff Evans...
Red Cliff or Red Cliffs may refer to: Red Cliffs, Victoria, Australia Chibi, Hubei, China Red Cliff, Greenland, Robert Peary's base during his Second...
Clarice Cliff (20 January 1899 – 23 October 1972) was an English ceramic artist and designer. Active from 1922 to 1963, Cliff became the head of the Newport...
Cliff jumping is the leaping off a cliff edge, usually into a body of water, as a form of sport. It may be done as part of the sport of coastal exploration...
William Cliff (born 17 October 1988) is a rugby union player for Sale Sharks. He plays as a scrum half. He scored his first try for Sale in their 49–24...
actor and comedian Bill Cosby and appeared in all 201 episodes of the show. Cliff is the Huxtable family patriarch who is very goofy and silly to most people...
The glass cliff is a hypothesized phenomenon in which women are more likely to break the "glass ceiling" (i.e. achieve leadership roles in business and...
Dalton's best friend, stunt double, personal assistant, and driver is Cliff Booth – a World War II Green Beret, living in a trailer with his pit bull...
Suicide Cliff is a cliff above Marpi Point Field near the northern tip of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, which achieved historic significance late in...
The cliff swallow or American cliff swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) is a member of the passerine bird family Hirundinidae, the swallows and martins...
Ponyo (Japanese: 崖の上のポニョ, Hepburn: Gake no Ue no Ponyo, lit. 'Ponyo on the Cliff') is a 2008 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao...
Clifford "Cliff" Warner and Nina Cortlandt are fictional characters and a supercouple from the 1980s Cliff and Nina storyline on the American daytime drama...
is the bar's know-it-all and was a contestant on the game show Jeopardy! Cliff was not originally scripted in the series' pilot episode, "Give Me a Ring...
The cliff chipmunk (Neotamias dorsalis) is a small, bushy-tailed squirrel that typically lives along cliff walls or boulder fields bordering Pinyon-juniper...
the late 1950s to the early 1960s. They served as the backing band for Cliff Richard from 1958 to 1968, and have joined him for several reunion tours...
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