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

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

Later, as we all watch the sun slide down the western edge of the great escarpment, we sit in thoughtful silence.

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