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Definition of Escarpment

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 Escarpment from wikipedia

- with escarpment. escarpment referring to the margin between two landforms, and scarp referring to a cliff or a steep slope. In this usage an escarpment is...
- The Niagara Escarpment is a ~650 mile long discontinuous, arc shaped but generally northward-facing escarpment, or cuesta, in Canada and the United States...
- The Bandiagara Escarpment (Arabic: منحدرات باندياغارا الصخرية, French: falaise de Bandiagara) is a sandstone cliff in the Dogon country of Mali. It rises...
- 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...
- Battle of Okinawa, they are tasked with ascending and securing the Maeda Escarpment ("Hacksaw Ridge"). During the initial fight, with heavy losses on both...
- The Great Escarpment is a major topographical feature in Africa that consists of steep slopes from the high central Southern African plateau downward in...
- The Pottsville Escarpment is a resistant sandstone belt of cliffs and steep sided, narrow crested valleys in eastern Kentucky, USA. It features rock shelters...
- Mpumalanga's Eastern Escarpment Bandiagara Escarpment (Mali) Zambezi Escarpment (Zambia) East coast, Madagascar Usas Escarpment Sharon Escarpment, Israel Tuwaiq...
- rolling hills that rise from the meadows of the upper River Thames to an escarpment above the Severn Valley and the Vale of Evesham. The area is defined by...
- The Helderberg Escarpment, also known as the Helderberg Mountains, is an escarpment in eastern New York, United States, roughly 11 miles (18 km) west of...