Niagara River Gorge
by Tom Brickhouse
Title
Niagara River Gorge
Artist
Tom Brickhouse
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Photograph - Photographic Prints
Description
The Niagara Gorge is an 11 km (6.8 mi) gorge carved by the Niagara River along the US-Canadian border in New York and Ontario. It begins at the base of Niagara Falls and ends at the Niagara escarpment near Queenston, Ontario, where the falls originated about 12,500 years ago.
The river has formed the gorge, and the Falls has receded upstream and south toward Lake Erie, by slow erosion of that hard Lockport dolomite which is the surface rock of the escarpment combined with rapid erosion of those relatively soft layers beneath it.
The force of the river current in the gorge is one of the most powerful in the world. Because of the dangers this presents, kayaking the gorge has been prohibited.
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