Name: Overhanging Cliff

County: Park

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Longitude: 1102322W

Latitude: 445344N

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Elevation: 6673/2034

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Feature Type: Cliff

Origin of Name:

Highway construction here necessitated cutting the roadbed out of the solid stone cliff, and a portion of the wall overhangs the road. Here also a small stream comes in from the east and falls formed where the water drops over the edge of a ledge are seen from the highway. 

Source: WPA

A cliff of basalt which overhangs the road near Tower Fall, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park.

Source: Decisions, 1937

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Tower Junction

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