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Where a river briefly forgets gravity is undefeated and falls anyway.
means A place where flowing water drops vertically over a ledge of rock, usually because softer stone eroded faster below.
from Plain Old English logic: water plus fall, joined sometime in the 1500s for the exact thing it says.
Self-deepeningThe plunge carves a pool that pulls the cliff backward.
TallestVenezuela's Angel Falls drops nearly 1,000 meters uninterrupted.
Mist effectSpray feeds rainbows and rare cliff-cling ecosystems.
Always retreatingNiagara crawls upstream roughly a foot per year.