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Meaning of "escarpment"
Escarpment (noun) - a steep slope or long cliff that results from erosion or faulting and separates two relatively level areas of land
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- A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.
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This escarpment we are over is not on our map.
The rock of the escarpment is very old.
The escarpment was later steepened by glacial scouring.
He turned to stone and became the escarpment.
At the base on the escarpment are a series of plateaus.
The town boundary lies on the escarpment.
The escarpment has a distinct concave profile.
And we can see the escarpment there.
Kirikuküla is situated on a gently sloping coastal escarpment.
The line of the escarpment is nearly straight.
There are few easy routes up this escarpment.
The escarpment was what geologists call a chaotic region.
For picnic road trips up the escarpment.
There is an escarpment to the west of the city limit.
These landforms are the plains and the escarpment.
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The escarpment slopes gradually here.
There is hardly any keuper escarpment there at all.
The escarpment serves an extremely important climatic function.
Build a subdivision right at the base of the escarpment.
The height of the escarpment made it attractive to development.
Kene has taken me to the plateau of the escarpment.
On that escarpment they found the two lakes.
This takes you up the escarpment.
Niagara escarpment white cedar trees.
The south flank is mainly escarpment.
Along the escarpment is a range of mountains.
The ranch was named for a nearby sandstone escarpment.
An escarpment lies to the west of the city limit.
There are waterfalls on the edge of escarpment.
Its coastal escarpment makes access by sea difficult.
The cave is near the top of the escarpment.
The face of an escarpment below the kelp forest.
The village is on the crest of an escarpment.
A prominent escarpment is visible in the image.
Dawn at the foot of the escarpment.
The escarpment is heavily forested.
It is built on the edge of the escarpment.
Both the escarpment and the aureole are poorly understood.
In a barn by the escarpment pathway.
Talus is a mass of fallen rock debris at the foot of an escarpment.
You will approach an rock escarpment with steep sides.
Sounded like the cry we heard below the escarpment.
The eastern escarpment is the best defined of these outer ranges.
Tarzan take safari up escarpment.
The escarpment seen from below looks like a range of mountains.
Within this community is a group of plants on the escarpment heath.
Marj escarpment area.
It is often associated with orographic lift caused by the escarpment.
In the escarpment can still be found the old roofing tiles.
There was this one escarpment.
