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

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

“Everyone had work, and children stayed here instead of going abroad,” Mr. Bulkhak said, gesturing at the now mostly empty village from an escarpment overlooking the valley.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2022

The goshawk brushes me with her wing as I throw my legs over the escarpment and scramble down to our camp.

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