escarpments's Usage Examples:

environs are characterized by dramatic red escarpments which jut ruggedly skyward from the coarse, gray terrain; green agricultural land adjacent to the.

Laycock, Herford and Jeffcoat climbed numerous new routes on many of the fine escarpments of Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Yorkshire in the years leading up to the First World War, and these were faithfully recorded in Laycock's guidebook Some Gritstone Climbs, the first published guidebook on rock climbing in the Peak District.

A mesa is an isolated, flat-topped elevation, ridge or hill, which is bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding.

flat-topped elevation, ridge or hill, which is bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding plain.

canyon (from Spanish: cañón; archaic British English spelling: cañon) or gorge is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering.

isolated, flat-topped elevation, ridge or hill, which is bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding plain.

Tupiza and its environs are characterized by dramatic red escarpments which jut ruggedly skyward from the coarse, gray terrain; green agricultural land adjacent.

hill, which is bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding plain.

They are found along the bottom of the escarpments.

discontinuous chain of mountain ridges, hill ranges, highlands and plateau escarpments in west-central India.

a very sharp and jagged appearance, but though difficult they are not unscalable, very steep and precipitous escarpments being rare and generally limited.

Adjacent raised blocks (horsts) and down-dropped blocks (grabens) can form high escarpments.

bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding plain.

Synonyms:

protective embankment, escarp, scarp, fortification, munition,

Antonyms:

abruptness, gradualness, descent, ascent, natural depression,