How To Use Escarpment In A Sentence
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Farther inland, every sandstone and limestone escarpment is the color of bone.
Pakistan’s Fatal Shore
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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
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The country's central regions are marked by plateaus and escarpments.
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It was a more rustic and northern version of Detroit with escarpments of slag and iron ore.
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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)
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That night camp was made on soft wet moss at the foot of the last escarpment before the Kongakut forges out onto the plain.
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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.
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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.
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The clay lowlands are flanked by steep chalk escarpments.
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The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit, a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain.
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Three cavalry companies gave pursuit, but were scattered when the warriors turned to defend a lava escarpment.
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Sherpa villages cling to the sides of sheer mountain slopes or sit on top of steep escarpments.
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The Park extends from coastal and riverine floodplains to lowland hills and basins some 160 km south, and from the dissected Arnhem Land plateau and sandstone escarpment in the east to the wooded Koolpinyah surface savanna 120 km west.
Kakadu National Park, Australia
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The geology of the region ranges from the recent river alluvia and Karoo sandstones to the ancient gneiss and paragneiss overlain by the lithosols of the basement complex of the escarpment.
Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas, Zimbabwe
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Of particular note is the flora of the sandstone formations of the western Arnhem Land escarpment, where some species are relict and many are endemic.
Kakadu National Park, Australia
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Just after that there are good views west off the edge of the escarpment in addition to those north towards the Cleveland Hills.
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To the east, the Great Escarpment marks the limit of headwards erosion of these tablelands from the coastal plain.
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From the pass head due south up the ridge, along a rocky escarpment then up grassy slopes to a stony summit.
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The great escarpment is embayed by major valleys, and a belt of mountains lies between it and the coastal plain.
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Flat alluvial fields rise up from the river to meet undulating slopes and escarpments that have been in cultivation since the sixteenth century.
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Everything was bone dry, and the cedar breaks below the escarpment held not a single robin, waxwing, solitaire, or bluebird.
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The lowland rainforest is abruptly fractured by the Pakaraima Mountains, an area dominated by bold escarpments and lush, forested valleys.
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A shelf of land extended from the escarpment.
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The near-endemic grey-striped francolin (Francolinus griseostriatus) occurs mainly on the escarpment of the Angolan Scarp Savanna and Woodland ecoregion, but its range is very localized and it has been recorded in the Afromontane region.
Angolan montane forest-grassland mosaic
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The Western Mountain Karoo forms part of the Great Escarpment, a mountainous landscape comprising mainly of Karoo rocks with dolerite intrusions forming many of the peaks and ridges.
Succulent Karoo
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We're in Pole Canyon, looking west up the western escarpment of Mount Washington, which is 11,600 feet on top.
Stewart Brand on the Long Now
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Crossing the Hakos Mountains at the edge of the Namibian escarpment is our greatest challenge.
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He has also gone further afield including BC and Alberta in Canada, Utah, and Britain but his local crags are the limestone outcrops of the Niagara escarpment.
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It occupies the high-lying peneplain between South Africa and Swaziland, and borders against the low-lying, older greenstone terrane in the north along a prominent, 500-700 m high escarpment.
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The eroded surfaces are now masked as damp woods which have invaded impluvia, gorges and escarpments.
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The serviceable track undulates and crosses many gullies, the trees are thinned, you can see out north over pretty fields, tightly bound by the curving wooded escarpment.
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Facultative altitudinal movement is likely a particularly tractable option for birds breeding on the Sierra Nevada crest, owing to the precipitous elevation drop down the eastern escarpment.
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He was still sufficiently sane to remind me that Orvieto was perched on the top of a craggy escarpment.
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The Park contains many sacred sites of religious significance, some 1,000 archaeological sites of Aboriginal culture and an estimated 15,000 rock art sites in a number of styles in richly decorated caves concentrated along the Arnhem Land escarpment, some dating back 18,000 years recording animal species no longer present.
Kakadu National Park, Australia
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The clay lowlands are flanked by steep chalk escarpments.
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The hamadryas or sacred baboon (Papio hamadryas), which was held sacred in ancient Egypt and often mummified, is today endemic to the arid Horn, living on hillsides and escarpments bordering the southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
Biological diversity in the Horn of Africa
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From here, the burial cortège, priests and visitors would pass through ceremonial halls onto a causeway that ascended the desert escarpment to the mortuary temple, built against the east face of the pyramid.
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Whereas tectonic activity may supply the thickened crust and the high surface altitudes, most of the Earth's dramatic scenery, from sea cliffs to continental escarpments to deep mountain valleys, is cut by erosional processes.
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About half-distance between this prolonged escarpment and the outlying hills six large "Conestoga" waggons, locked tongue and tail together, enclosing a lozenge-shaped or elliptical space -- a _corral_ -- inside which are fifteen men and five horses.
The Lone Ranche
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Even while rising, a young upfold is often thus unroofed, and instead of appearing as a long, Smooth, boat-shaped ridge, it commonly has had opened along the rocks of the axis, when these are weak, a valley which is overlooked by the infacing escarpments of the hard layers of the sides of the fold.
The Elements of Geology
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Note 41: The area of the northern Transvaal between the Klein Letaba and Olifants Rivers, east of the escarpment that divides the highveld from the lowveld.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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Perched high on an escarpment above the Cibolo creek floodplain, this area was once an important hunting area for Apache and later the Comanche peoples.
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Besides the narrow endemics listed above, characteristic birds of the escarpment forests and woodlands include red-crested turaco (Tauraco erythrolophus), red-backed mousebird (Colius castanotus) (both endemic to Angola), mottled spinetail (Telacanthura ussheri), batlike spinetail (Neafrapus boehmi), naked-faced barbet (Gymnobucco calvus), red-tailed palm thrush (Cichladusa ruficauda), and yellow-bellied wattle-eye (Dyaphorophyia concreta).
Angolan scarp savanna and woodlands
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The western boundary, next to the Interior Plateau's Eastern Highland Rim, is more crenulated, with a rougher escarpment that is more deeply incised.
Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA)
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What solitary distances, what sere, remote escarpments, what unbounded, wide eternities they are where you reside, in which no creatures of your hand appear!
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We headed up the Lake Albert escarpment avoiding marching soldiers then stopped for an hour in the Budongo Forest for a walk with crombecs.
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From the air, the tundra stretched to the south like a green-brown pillow, backdropped by the snowed escarpments of the Sadlerochits and the Brooks Range.
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They have explored the Sigsbee Escarpment, the long cliff at the edge of the abyssal plain; they've poked holes in the Mississippi Fold Belt and the Perdido Fan Fold Belt.
BP disaster: Rare mix of geological factors created rich but dangerous reserves
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A shelf of land extended from the escarpment.
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Villagers cultivate maize, wheat and barley on verdant hillside terraces buttressed by stone escarpments.
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The steep north faces of the escarpments escaped cultivation and the worst effects of logging.
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Toniná, at seven levels up against that escarpment, is the highest construction among all ancient Maya cities and a spectacular sight.
Intensive Spanish on the Collectivo
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Soon the clouds would begin to mass over the escarpment, heavy with moisture gathered from a distant sea.
AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
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In the morning we wheel south into the vast, rocky ocean that is the Namibian desert, an endless retreat of buttes and ravines, ridges and terraced escarpments, the compacted age lines of the earth as deep and hard and revealing as the dark weather-carved face of an aged German miner.
Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part I
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Steep escarpments of white calcrete, marking the perimeter of the ancient lake, run along the shores of the pans, rising between 70 and 100 meters (m) above their surface.
Zambezian halophytics
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It is built in a lovely location on the edge of an escarpment looking out over the Vale of York.
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Perhaps the most striking feature is the steep escarpment that characterizes the northwest-facing edge of the Cotswold Hills.
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The serviceable track undulates and crosses many gullies, the trees are thinned, you can see out north over pretty fields, tightly bound by the curving wooded escarpment.
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I've clambered up rocks in the tropical heat in the vain hope that there might be grasswren on top of the escarpment.
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In some cases, escarpments occur where there is no obvious lithologic or tectonic origin.
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Flat alluvial fields rise up from the river to meet undulating slopes and escarpments that have been in cultivation since the sixteenth century.
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To efficiently harvest the region's trees, which average 20 cm in diameter and are perched on slopes and rocky escarpments, calls for some innovative and hardworking contractors.
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Sherpa villages cling to the sides of sheer mountain slopes or sit on top of steep escarpments.
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To make it more spectacular the escarpment is sliced by multiple canyons and valleys that plummet abruptly to the semi-desert African plane thousands of feet below.
Family reunion in Addis! « Cameroon
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The mixed mesophytic forest is restricted mostly to the deeper ravines and escarpment slopes, and the upland forests are dominated by mixed oaks with shortleaf pine.
Ecoregions of Tennessee (EPA)
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Surrounding the pans on a larger scale (on less brackish soil) are grasslands dominated by Odyssea paucinervis and Cynodon dactylon with Cenchrus ciliaris and Eriochloa meyeriana dominating the crests of calcrete escarpments.
Zambezian halophytics
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It was like an escarpment, sloping up gently on one side and dropping vertically to 90m on the other.
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Heavy rains extended south to the Illawarra escarpment west of Wollongong, an area accustomed to drenchings from east coast lows.
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Everything was bone dry, and the cedar breaks below the escarpment held not a single robin, waxwing, solitaire, or bluebird.
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Legend has it that the lammergeier will sometimes dive at animals, even humans, trying to scare them into falling off the escarpment.
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The escarpment has been shaped into numerous irregularities, indentations, and promontories, and is pierced by thalweg ravines, gorges, and rocky passages connecting the plain and plateau.
Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali
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The escarpments, however, are due in a large degree to the erosion of weaker rock on the downthrow side.
The Elements of Geology
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Many other streams and waterfalls run through this area's rocky escarpments and narrow valleys.
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The sediments that produced the beds were deposited in moderately deep waters located a hundred meters seaward of the escarpment.
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Her Chateau de Bellevue was on the edge of the Meudon Forest, with a long view of the Seine Valley down to Paris, and with the Sevres potteries tucked under the escarpment.
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The plateau complex rises toward the southeast, where it climaxes in the Drakensberg range, part of an escarpment that separates the plateau from the coastal areas.
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Many other streams and waterfalls run through this area's rocky escarpments and narrow valleys.
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The main outcrops of this rock suite underlie the two steep-sided hills of the Boesmanskop to the immediate north of the main escarpment.
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Mr. Evans, who moved to the small town of Marathon in 1988, captures the profound West Texas emptiness, where endless horizons are broken only by isolated escarpments such as the Chisos Mountains, which the writer and environmentalist Edward Abbey called 'a castled fortification of Wagnerian gods.'
Photo-Op: Big Bender
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He relied on 15 Panzer Division and the Reconnaissance Group around Azizia to break up any debouchment from the escarpment by British forces.
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It was a more rustic and northern version of Detroit with escarpments of slag and iron ore.
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The first couple of miles are along the top edge of the western escarpment of the Hambleton Hills.
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Geologically, the Cotswolds were created from a large block of oolitic limestone tilting up at its western end to form today's escarpment, with a gentle slope tilting to the east.
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Grain by grain, the vast foundations, the beetling escarpments, the high domes in air are crumbled away and drifted into the valleys.
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Once the more resistant gently dipping rocks of the Cotswolds have been removed, the underlying softer beds are easily eroded, so the Jurassic escarpments to the east of the Vales of Evesham and Gloucester retreated through time.
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Within Colombia, linework was derived by combining all Pacific "heterogeneous dense forests", "piedmont cordillera forests", "hydrophilic (riparian) forest", and "escarpment cordillera forests" of the Chocó region.
Chocó-Darién moist forests
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The area sits in the western Rift Valley adjacent to the escarpment of the Fipa plateau.
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The harder beds generally form NW-facing escarpments, whereas their SE slopes merge gradually below the wide clay vales excavated along the outcrops of the Oxford Clay and other softer beds.
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Unlike typical ocean hot spots, such as hydrothermal vents, the Gorda Escarpment has unique properties which benefit egg development.
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The escarpment where the plateau met the plain became the Vindhya mountains.
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Clearing the birch will help oak saplings and bilberries, ferns, mosses and lichens to prosper on the escarpment overlooking Nidderdale.
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While the muleteer and packhorses beelined for the next camp through the tilled fields, we insisted that the four of us hike along the escarpment for the rest of the journey.
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And then I made the fatal mistake of adding, "We've been hauling the fill all the way out to the edge of the escarpment.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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(Yoho National Park), Burgess Shale fossils occur along the basinal edge of a paleoescarpment within the "thick" Stephen Formation.
EurekAlert! - Breaking News
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Standing higher than the others on the edge of the breach was that giant who had brought Grandfather Fragini in pickaback, looking a young god on an escarpment of rock on Olympus.
The Last Shot