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Cliffs

LC control no.sh 87003234
Topical headingCliffs
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Variant(s)Bluffs (Landforms)
Crags (Cliffs)
Escarpments
Palisades
See alsoLandforms
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Found inWeb. 3.
GeoRef.
Thes. eng. sci. terms.
In South Cheyenne Cañon with pen and camera, approximately 1893, via HathiTrust Digital Library, viewed Dec. 29, 2021: p. 6 (two tremendous cliffs, "The pillars of Hercules")
Paul, S.J. Hiking waterfalls in Colorado, 2013, via Google books, viewed Dec. 29, 2021: p. 107 (the road to Seven Falls twists through South Cheyenne Cañon and squeezes into narrow passages where crags like the "Pillars of Hercules" rise nearly 1,000 feet from the roadway)
Merriam-Webster dictionary online, Dec. 29, 2021 (crag 1: a steep rugged rock or cliff. 2: archaic : a sharp detached fragment of rock)
Collins English dictionary online, Dec. 29, 2021 (crag: a steep rocky cliff or part of a mountain. Synonyms: rock, peak, bluff, pinnacle)
Cambridge dictionary online, Dec. 29, 2021 (crag: a high, rough mass of rock that sticks out from the land around it)