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Meaning of "scarps"
scarps: A steep slope or cliff, especially one formed by erosion or faulting
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- plural of scarp
- third-person singular simple present indicative form of scarp
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It often weathers to prominent scarps without talus.
Mirandan scarps are called rupes.
This habitat type also includes occasional scarps.
Some of these have scarps that dam lakes.
Avoid scarps as they can upset the balanced ration.
The fault forms spectacular fault scarps on terraces.
Scarps ran along the sidewalk and across the property.
It is said that as long as we have our scarps of paper.
This is unusual because the scarps usually face in the direction of flow.
All towns are situated at the foot of the scarps.
Both types of mountains often have steep scarps along one or more margins.
An analysis of the scarps revealed that thick ice hides just below the surface.
Slope forests and gullies situated around scarps are protected habitats.
Scarps on Venus are called rupes and are named after goddesses of the hearth.
Scientists have not determined how these particular scarps initially form.
See also
List of scarps on Mercury.
It has a long ridge from north to south and wide scarps east and west.
Some scarps near Babbar Patera may represent faults.
A maximum MM intensity X was assigned to the fault scarps in the epicentral area.
Such scarps are known as fault-line scarps, in distinction from the original fault scarps.
Displacement on some scarps was as much as 1 meter.
Titanias surface is intersected by a system of enormous faults, or scarps.
Well, not when the scarps can be traced back.
Its exterior walls are made of multiple sub-parallel scarps and terraces.
A series of scarps face south-west, longitudinally bisecting these plains in the center of the country.
In addition, extensive linear cracks and scarps were observed.
The regions along some scarps and near Ursula appear smooth at Voyager 's image resolution.
However, scientists now find there is a bewildering pattern to these fault scarps.
These faults resemble small stair-shaped cliffs, or scarps when seen from the lunar surface.
In arid country, by contrast, limestone can be quite resistant and often forms scarps.
Some researchers think Mercury 's scarps are like wrinkles in a raisin, a sign of shrinkage.
Thick sequences of sedimentary ( colluvial ) breccias are generally formed next to fault scarps in grabens.
The scarps or cliffs are usually 1 to 2 km high.
Very smooth plains material for instance, commonly lies at the base of ridges or scarps.
It contains scarps or cliffs that are 1 to 2 km in height.
A scientist has named these wrinkles, Lobate Scarps.
The scarps can be massive!
Titania 's surface is intersected by a system of enormous faults, or scarps.
Some of the loamy scarps near Upninkai reach as high as 40 metres.
In some parts along the rim, inward-facing scarps may be seen.
Within Mare Imbrium, scarps ( lines of cliffs ) wind their way across the surface.
Furthermore, some of the blind windows, window niches, sacristy, and scarps are plastered.
Large scarps are visible in the low cliff along this beach in Deal, N. J.
The pattern is shown by faults, volcanic fissures, valleys, dikes, volcanoes, grabens and fault scarps.
