Definition of Scarping. Meaning of Scarping. Synonyms of Scarping

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Definition of Scarping

Scarping
Scarp Scarp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scarped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scarping.] To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock. From scarped cliff and quarried stone. --Tennyson. Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain. --Emerson.

Meaning of Scarping from wikipedia

- Look up scarp or scarps in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Scarp may refer to: Cliff, a significant vertical, or near vertical, rock exposure Escarpment...
- A fault scarp is a small step or offset on the ground surface where one side of a fault has moved vertically with respect to the other. It is the topographic...
- Scarp retreat is a geological process through which the location of an escarpment changes over time. Typically the cliff is undermined, rocks fall and...
- The Darling Scarp, also referred to as the Darling Range or Darling Ranges, is a low escarpment running north–south to the east of the Swan Coastal Plain...
- two relatively level areas having different elevations. The terms scarp and scarp face are often used interchangeably with escarpment.[citation needed]...
- Louisville   Seamounts Wishbone scarp West Wishbone  scarp   East Wish- bone scarp West Wishbone  scarp     Tonga Trench Osbourn Trough  Kermadec Trench...
- The Cody Scarp or Cody Escarpment is located in north and north central Florida United States. It is a relict scarp and ancient persistent topographical...
- Scarp (Scottish Gaelic: An Sgarp) is an uninhabited island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, west of Hushinish on Harris. Once inhabited, the island...
- Kuiper Scarp Kuiper Scarp (71°26′S 68°27′W / 71.433°S 68.450°W / -71.433; -68.450) is an east–west escarpment running along the south face of Ur****...
- 65°23′00″W / 68.8333333°S 65.3833333°W / -68.8333333; -65.3833333 Norwood Scarp is a distinct, 18 km long and 1525 m high cliff in the East of Palmer Land...