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escarpment's Usage Examples:

The more modern sections of the village are built along the top of the escarpment with the older houses nestling below the cliff face backing on to the high street.

In a few places, the ridge of the escarpment is exposed, although usually within private property.

The Chalk Bluffs is a barren chalk escarpment in the northeastern part of the U.

The story goes that a young farm boy grazing his sheep flock around the lake of Llyn y Fan Fach below the Black Mountain escarpment.

Between 1762 and 1764, at the close of the French and Indian War, a gravity railroad (mechanized tramway) (Montresor's Tramway) was built by British Army engineers up the steep riverside terrain near the Niagara River waterfall's escarpment at the Niagara Portage (which the local Senecas called Crawl on All Fours.

basin center, while the later members were deposited during episodes of monoclinal folding along the Nacimiento Fault on the west escarpment of the Nacimiento.

Ricetti's work is over more than one kilometre along the south-eastern face of Scenic Hill which is a escarpment on the southernmost part of the McPherson Range.

The chalk escarpment straddles two very different local eco-systems- the Cambridgeshire Fens to the west, where the land slopes down and the chalk heathland to the east, known locally as Swaffham Prior heath, part of the Greater Newmarket chalk heath, where the land height increases and plateaus into a larger area towards the east.

In this respect Ricetti would have drawn on his Italian upbringing in a mountain valley of north Italy in making his choice of dwelling on the escarpment of the southern edge of the McPherson Range—a prominent ridge top location in the predominantly flat Riverina Plain.

Transportation Tabubil itself is situated amongst dense jungle on a plateau, beside a steep escarpment leading down to the Ok Tedi River in the Star Mountains of Papua New Guinea.

contains significant outcrops of flint (a type of chert) which bears the escarpment"s name.

On the paths that run along both the top and bottom of the escarpment, the underlying gritstone is often exposed and subsequently worn by the passage of many feet, creating a warm-coloured sand that is characteristic of this part of the Peak District.

) "putting in" escarcelle "purse" escarmouche "skirmish" escarpe "scarp" escarper escarpment contrescarpe escarpin.

Synonyms:

protective embankment, escarp, scarp, fortification, munition,

Antonyms:

abruptness, gradualness, descent, ascent, natural depression,