escarpment
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Hike back down the Beach Trail from the visitors center through chaparral and sandy bluffs to the shore at Flat Rock, where rain has eroded deep arroyos into the 300-foot sandstone escarpments.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024
The well-defined escarpments rimming the lake reveal its true nature: It is a giant crater formed by massive eruptions.
From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2020
He and Dr. Schmitt found themselves in a desolate but recognizable landscape near the Taurus Mountains and the Littrow Crater, a region of hills, cliffs and escarpments littered with tumbled rocks.
From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2017
In Reno the skies cleared, and we headed south on Highway 395, which runs under the eastern wall of the Sierra Nevada, one of the greatest escarpments on Earth.
From Slate • Oct. 22, 2014
He drifted past saguaros and alkali flats, camped beneath escarpments of naked Precambrian stone.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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