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/kluz/ · noun
A defile or narrow gorge, especially one that cuts transversely through the rock of an otherwise continuous ridge..
[…] cut by the wadis of the Atlas which gave birth to very steep cluses (Lechhab 1991).
[...] others are bounded by the steep walls of the cluses, these being the most picturesque; others, again, occupy the combes referred to above.
Penck states that many a cluse in the Jura may have been formed by subterranean streams widening their channels until the covering broke down and their subterranean valleys became exposed[…]
[…] narrow cluses still exist. The distinctive nature of the geomorphic forms of the Jura is indicated by the fact that each such item is identified locally by a particular term.
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Cluse means A defile or narrow gorge, especially one that cuts transversely through the rock of an otherwise continuous ridge..
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[…] cut by the wadis of the Atlas which gave birth to very steep cluses (Lechhab 1991).
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