escarpment

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The escarpment is a line of cliffs and steep hills created by a geologic fault.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025

A second engraving, found in 2015 during a survey of the Jebel az-Zilliyat escarpment in Saudi Arabia, is inscribed on a sandstone boulder more than three meters wide and two meters high.

From Scientific American • May 17, 2023

We turned east, climbing up the Hat Creek Rim, an escarpment 1,000 feet above the Hat Creek valley floor and an overlook showcasing multiple volcanic peaks and cones.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2022

What remains are mostly tiny and tricky lots like 1490, which faces onto a subway viaduct and is partly taken up by a rock escarpment.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2022

Pipkin needed no further persuasion and they set off together, over the grass track, across the turf beyond and down the escarpment.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams