escarpment

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When warm air from the Gulf rushes up the escarpment, it condenses and can dump a lot of moisture.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025

The site's location on the lip of a south-facing escarpment in the middle of Somerset was carefully chosen.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 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

We stand on the escarpment for a long time, staring up at the cloud through which Frightful sped to freedom.

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