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
Its one million square feet straddle a 150-foot-high escarpment where the lush Nile River plain transitions to the high, dry desert on which the mighty pyramids of Egypt were erected.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2022
There wasn’t much left of it then anyway, for every time it fell over an escarpment the thirsty air drank it, and it splashed from the pools to the dry vegetation.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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The Pearl
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