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Definition of Escarpments

Escarpment
Escarpment Es*carp"ment, n. [Cf. F. escarpement.] 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. See Scarp.

Meaning of Escarpments from wikipedia

- type: the escarpment is a transition from one series of sedimentary rocks to another series of a different age and composition. Escarpments are also frequently...
- The Caprock Escarpment is a term used in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico to describe the geographical transition point between the level High Plains...
- through western New York and southern Ontario. The escarpment is the most prominent of several escarpments formed in the bedrock of the Great Lakes Basin...
-  13. Nandi Escarpment ... Mindat. Okuna 2019. Matoke 2017. Doute (1981), Kakamega Forest-Nandi Forest Complex showing the Nandi Escarpments and ****ociated...
- The Pottsville Escarpment is a resistant sandstone belt of cliffs and steep sided, narrow crested valleys in eastern Kentucky, USA. It features rock shelters...
- The Magnesian escarpment is the most westerly of three prominent escarpments that run north-south in Wisconsin. All three escarpments are formed by the...
- (Devonian) and Onondaga (Silurian) limestones are distinguishable as escarpments a few dozen metres in height. "Icy Stalagmites in Tory Cave". Schenectady...
- Zambezi Escarpment is a name used for the escarpments forming both sides of the rift valley or graben in which lie the middle Zambezi river and Lake Kariba...
- Elgeyo escarpment is a fault-scarp caused by post-Miocene faulting. Miocene beds are still visible. The escarpment is part of the western wall of the...
- The Bandiagara Escarpment (Arabic: منحدرات باندياغارا الصخرية, French: falaise de Bandiagara) is an escarpment in the Dogon country of Mali. The sandstone...