•The word “gorge” is a French word meaning “throat” or “neck”. •Gorges are also deep, narrow and steep-sided opening between upland areas, usually containing a river. •Gorges are formed when very powerful rivers cut across very resistant rock.

How are Gorges formed?

Coastal limestone planes crossed by a river, which brings rain water and melted snow down from the mountains.

The fault or crack is breaking, due to geological uplift and pressure. A gorge is beginning to be formed. The river in its bed causes immense erosion.

Immense erosion by the river and rising of the stone floor continues, widening the gorge.

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