escarpment
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Led by researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK, the new study suggests that a vast "great escarpment" formed about 800 million years ago as the supercontinent Rodinia broke apart.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
Then he began to climb, sailed sideways over the grass and disappeared northward below the edge of the escarpment.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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