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A ravine is a very small valley, which is often the product of streamcutting erosion. Often found in urban areas, ravines are typically classified as larger in scale than gullies, although smaller than valleys. A ravine is generally a slope landform of relatively steep (cross-sectional) sides, on the order of twenty to seventy percent in gradient. Ravines may or may not have active streams flowing along the downslope channel which originally formed them; moreover, often they are characterised by intermittent streams, since their geographic scale may not be sufficiently large to support a perennial watercourse.
Notable ravines
- Ravine Gardens State Park, Florida
- Babi Yar, Kiev, Ukraine
- Toronto ravine system, Toronto, Ontario
- Ravines are featured prominently in many of the works of Ray Bradbury when writing about his hometown of Waukegan, Illinois in his book Dandelion Wine.
- Barranco, Lima, Peru.
Other terms
Other terms for ravine include- cleuch
- gill
- glen
- dell
See also
Notes
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