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a canyon's scrappy little cousin, carved by water that left in a hurry
means A gulch is a deep, narrow ravine, usually steep-sided and carved by a fast-running stream or flash flood, especially in the American West.
from Likely from the dialectal English verb 'gulch,' meaning to gulp or swallow greedily — picture water gulping its way through the land, gouging a channel. The word as a landform took root in 19th-century American mining country, where prospectors panned the gulches for gold; the sense connecting it to swallowing and devouring is old, but the geographic meaning is solidly New World.
- birth method
- Cut fast by flash floods, not lazy rivers
- gold rush
- Prospectors panned gulches for nuggets in the 1800s
- deadwood fame
- Deadwood Gulch birthed a lawless mining boomtown
- flash danger
- Can fill with deadly water in minutes
- word roots
- Likely from a dialect verb meaning to swallow
antelope canyon — narrow slot canyon in arizona with 200-foot walls, most photographed in the us
zion narrows — utah canyon where the virgin river cuts through 1000-foot red rock walls
orderville canyon — utah gorge with 800-foot walls and water-filled bottom, tributary of zion narrows