Palisades

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Palisades or Palisade may refer to:

• Palisade, a type of fence
• Palisade cell, found in plant leaves
• Palisades Toys, a company that produced action figures and other collectibles

[edit] Places

[edit] Geology

• New Jersey Palisades, cliffs along the Hudson River in the US states of New York and New Jersey
• Palisades Sill, an intrusive igneous body that forms the cliffs largely following the southern portion of the Hudson River
• Palisades (California Sierra), a group of peaks in the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
• Jasper Palisade, a mountain formation in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
• Palisade Head, a headland on the North Shore of Lake Superior in the US state of Minnesota
• Mississippi Palisades, cliffs along the Mississippi River located in the Driftless Area in far Northwestern Illinois

[edit] Communities

• Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California
• Palisade, Colorado
• Palisade, Nevada
• Palisades, New York
• Palisades Center, a major shopping center in West Nyack, New York
• Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Van Buren County, Michigan
• The Palisades, Washington, D.C.