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Definition of Escarpments
1. escarpment [n] - See also: escarpment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Escarpments
Literary usage of Escarpments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Earth Sculpture; Or, The Origin of Land-forms: Or, The Origin of Landforms by James Geikie (1898)
"THE most characteristic land-forms met with in regions where the strata are
inclined in some general direction are escarpments and dip-slopes, ..."
2. Earth Sculpture; Or, The Origin of Land-forms: Or, The Origin of Landforms by James Geikie (1898)
"THE most characteristic land-forms met with in regions where the strata are
inclined in some general direction are escarpments and dip-slopes, ..."
3. Elements of Geology; Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1865)
"... axis and parallel ridges—Longitudinal and transverse valleys— Chalk escarpments—Rise
and denudation of the strata gradual—Ridges formed by harder, ..."
4. The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain by Alfred John Jukes-Browne, William Hill (1904)
"Each of these special sets of features, escarpments, uplands, ... Chalk escarpments.
In this as in other memoirs of the Geological Survey the term ..."
5. Elements of Geology; Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1866)
"The true nature of such escarpments is nowhere more obvious than in parts of
Normandy, where the river Seine and its tributaries flow through deep winding ..."
6. The physical geology and geography of Great Britain: a manual of British geology by Andrew Crombie Ramsay (1878)
"IN the foregoing pages much has been said about escarpments. The origin of all
escarpments, excepting modern sea cliffs, is generally the same, ..."
7. Field Methods in Petroleum Geology by Guy Henry. Cox (1921)
"Erosion escarpments.—The erosion of inclined or tilted strata gives rise to
topographic forms which are characterized by their lack of symmetry. ..."
8. A Manual of Elementary Geology; Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1865)
"... escarpments—Rise and denudation of the strata gradual—Ridges formed by harder,
valleys by softer beds—At what periods the Weald Valley was denuded—Why ..."
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