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

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

The design is intended to echo the landscape, as if five huge boulders had been brought together to make a shelter in the escarpment.

From BBC • Jul. 8, 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