1) CLIFFLIKE RIDGE 2) Fortification slope 3) French word used in English 4) Incline 5) Scarp 6) Side 7) Slope 8) Steep slope
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1) Cliff 2) Crag 3) Escarp 4) Layer 5) Scarp
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An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that occurs from faulting and resulting erosion and separates two relatively level areas of differing elevations. Usually escarpment is used interchangeably with scarp (from the Italian scarpa, shoe). But some sources differentiate the two terms, where escarpment refers to the margin between two landfor...
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transition zone between different physiogeographic provinces that involves an elevation differential, characterized by a cliff or steep slope.
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• (n.) 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.
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A steep slope or cliff formed by the erosion of the inclined strata of hard rocks.
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(from the article `Mercury`) ...The rim consists of a ring of irregular mountain blocks approaching 3 km (1.9 miles) in height, the highest mountains yet seen on Mercury, bounded ...
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(from the article `ocean`) ...on leading-edge, tectonically active margins such as that off the above-mentioned Borderland. Steep slopes usually have either a very poorly ...
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A long, more or less continuous cliff or steep slope facing in one general direction; it generally marks the outcrop of a resistant layer of rocks, or the exposed plane of a fault that has moved recently.
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Es·carp'ment noun [ Confer French
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 .
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A cliff or very steep slope.
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A long steep rock face on a ridge or edge of a plateau.
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A steep or vertical cliff, either above or below sea level.
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n. A steep or vertical cliff, either above or below sea level.
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n. A steep or vertical cliff, either above or below sea level.
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n] - a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge 2. [n] - a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification
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A long, more or less continuous cliff or relatively steep slope facing in one general direction, produced by erosion or faulting.
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A more or less continuous line of CLIFFS or steep slopes facing in one general direction which are caused by EROSION or faulting, also called SCARP.
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escarp noun a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification
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Large ridge created by the erosion of dipping sedimentary rocks. It has one steep side (scarp) and one gently sloping side (dip). Escarpments are common features of chalk landscapes, such as the Chiltern Hills and the North Downs in England. Certain features are associated with chalk escarpments, including dry valleys (formed on the dip slope), com...
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The steep face of a tilted plateau. In southern Africa usually refers to the eastern escarpment, which forms the edge of the inland plateau or highveld.
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a steep slope or cliff formed by the erosion or separation of two relatively level areas of differing elevations.
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A long hill, or ridge, composed of gently dipping beds of rock. One side of the hill is gently sloping ('dip-slope') and the other side of the hill is very steep (scarp-slope).
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a long, precipitous, clifflike ridge of land, rock, or the like, commonly formed by faulting or fracturing of the earth's crust. Cf. scarp (def. 1). · ground cut into an escarp around a fortification or defensive position.
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a long steep slope at the edge of a plateau or ridge
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