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- dip of resistant strata, called caprock. Where erosion has exposed the frontslope of this, a steep slope or escarpment occurs. The resulting terrain may...
- side of the other slope, which is its frontslope, of a homoclinal ridge is a steeper or even cliff-like frontslope (escarpment) that is formed by the outcrop...
- area between a mountain and a plain, possibly related to the notion of a frontslope; for example: Rocky Mountain Front Wasatch Front Front (oceanography)...
- Homoclinal ridge – Ridge with a moderate sloping backslope and steeper frontslope Inselberg, also known as Monadnock – Isolated, steep rock hill on relatively...
- dipping rock stratum called a dip slope. The other side (its escarpment, frontslope or "scarp slope") is an erosion face that cuts through the dipping strata...
- backslopes of cuestas, homoclinal ridges, hogbacks, and flatirons. The frontslopes of such ridges consist of either an escarpment, a steep slope, or perhaps...