Palisades

See also: palisades

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the Palisades

  1. A line of steep cliffs along the western bank of the Hudson River in New Jersey.
    • 2022 February 3, Lucas Joel, “Dissolving in Toxic Oceans: How an Ancient Extinction Happened”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      Some 200 million years ago, the rocks that became the Palisades cliffs just across the Hudson River from Manhattan formed during volcanic activity that helped rip apart the ancient supercontinent Pangea.
  2. A group of peaks in the central part of the Sierra Nevada, California.
  3. A mountain range of Napa County, California.
  4. Ellipsis of Pacific Palisades: a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.

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