Concept information

Preferred term

waterfall  

Definition

  • A perpendicular or steep descent of the water of a stream, as where it crosses an outcrop of resistant rock overhanging softer rock that has been eroded or flows over the edge of a plateau of cliffed coast.

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URI

http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/9170

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