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

Its one million square feet straddle a 150-foot-high escarpment where the lush Nile River plain transitions to the high, dry desert on which the mighty pyramids of Egypt were erected.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2022

I see the stars in their places and hear the waterfall shooting to its destiny out over the edge of the escarpment.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George