Canyon

A gorge or canyon (cañon, old spelling occasionally still used) is a deep ravine between pairs of escarpments or cliffs and is the most often carved landscape by the erosive activity of a river over geologic timescales. Rivers have a natural tendency to cut through underlying surfaces so will eventually wear away rock layers to lessen their own pitch slowing their waters; given enough time, their bottoms will gradually reach a baseline elevationwhich is the same elevation as the body of water it will eventually drain into. This action, when the river source and mouth are at much different base elevations will form a canyon, particularly through regions where softer rock layers are intermingled with harder layers more resistant to weathering.

A canyon may also refer to a rift between two mountain peaks, such as those in ranges including the Rocky Mountains, the Alps, the Himalayas or the Andes. Usually a river or stream and erosion carve out such splits between mountains. Examples of mountain-type canyons are Provo Canyon in Utah or Yosemite National Park in California's Sierra Nevada. Canyons within mountains, or gorges that have an opening on only one side are called box canyons. Slot canyons are very narrow canyons, often with smooth walls.

Canyons (novel)

Canyons is a novel written by Gary Paulsen. It involves two boys - one lives in modern times (Brennan) while the other is an Indian boy (Coyote Runs) living nearly two hundred years ago.

Plot introduction

Canyons is a book about two boys. One boy is named Coyote Runs (age 14) and the other boy is Brennan Cole (age 15).

The story starts with Brennan making a short narrative about his life and switches back and forth from Brennan and Coyote Runs. Later in the story, the switching ends when Coyote Runs gets shot in the head during his first raid that would, if successful, will make him a man among his Apache tribe. However, he is shot by American soldiers and dies instantly. Nearly two hundred years later, Brennan finds his skull with a bullet hole in its forehead, and becomes obsessed with it. From that point on in the novel, a mystical link connects Brennan's mind with Coyote Runs' spirit. After talking to his old biology teacher, he runs sixty miles in a day and a night to return the skull to the top of a canyon - a place Coyote Runs calls his “medicine place." After a grueling run and a chase by Brennan's search party, he gets Coyote Runs' skull back to the medicine place, ending the bond and the novel.

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Canyons

by: Chris August

Mountains and Valleys, the ups and the downs I go through
I will rejoice in you Jesus no matter the view
So I'm singin' out from the depths of my heart,
I'm singin' out at the top of my lungs
I'm in love with you
These canyons will echo my voice
Screamin' hallelujah
Oh, what a beautiful noise
Glory to God in the highest from down her below
Jesus, My Savior, Your name is the sound of my home
So I'm singin' out from the depths of my heart,
I'm singin' out at the top of my lungs
Lifting you high
I'm in love with you
These canyons will echo my voice
Screamin' hallelujah
Oh, what a beautiful noise
The sound of your name, high off the hills
Is music to my ears
I'm in love with you
These canyons will echo my voice
Screamin' hallelujah
Oh, I'm in love with you
These canyons will echo my voice
Screamin' hallelujah
Oh, What a beautiful noise
Oh, What a beautiful noise




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