escarpment

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• Farther inland, every sandstone and limestone escarpment is the color of bone. Pakistan’s Fatal Shore
• South of the Cuanza River, the Zambezian component of the ecoregion comprises a mosaic of closed woodlands, grasslands and palm savanna, which is found along the lower and drier slopes of the escarpment and along the coast. Angolan scarp savanna and woodlands
• The country's central regions are marked by plateaus and escarpments.
• It was a more rustic and northern version of Detroit with escarpments of slag and iron ore.
• Along the escarpments, redberry junipers grow on the rimrock and cliff faces, along with skunkbush sumac, ephedra, mountain mahogany, plum, grape, and clematis. Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
• That night camp was made on soft wet moss at the foot of the last escarpment before the Kongakut forges out onto the plain.
• The sides of abyssal hills are fault escarpments created by vertical uplift of the sea floor during many events of fault slippage that produce frequent earthquakes.
• The East Coast consists of several narrow bands of lowlands that lead to an intermediate zone of steep bluffs and ravines abutting a 1650 foot escarpment which provides access to the central highlands.
• The clay lowlands are flanked by steep chalk escarpments.
• The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit, a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain.