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
When warm air from the Gulf rushes up the escarpment, it condenses and can dump a lot of moisture.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2025
That allowed us more modern digs and a lovely deck overlooking a large pond and a stunning view of Winter Rim, a 3,000-foot escarpment to the west.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024
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
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
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