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- noun Plural form of
escarpment .
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The rock displayed here in the escarpments is a compact amorphous trap, which appears to constitute the mass of the Blue mountains in this latitude; and all the region of country through which we have traveled since leaving the Snake river has been the seat of violent and extensive igneous action.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851
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Horsham, and Winchelsea to Boulogne, and as shown in the following section, taken from Professor Ramsay, we have on each side of the axis two ridges or "escarpments," one that of the Chalk, the other that of the Greensand, while between the Chalk and the Greensand is a valley, and between the Greensand and the ridge of Hastings Sand an undulating plain, in each case with a gentle slope from about where the London and
The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In John Lubbock 1873
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The northern section of Somalia, which proclaimed its independence in 1991, is free of the mindless violence tearing the rest of the country apart and offers rewarding sites from age-old rock paintings to spectacular escarpments to blinding white beaches -- much indeed to interest the visitor who ventures on this road less traveled.
Mike Arkus: Off the Beaten Track: A Few Pointers for Navigating Somaliland (PHOTOS) Mike Arkus 2010
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The northern section of Somalia is free of the mindless violence tearing the rest of the country apart and offers rewarding sites from age-old rock paintings to spectacular escarpments to blinding white beaches.
Mike Arkus: Off the Beaten Track: A Few Pointers for Navigating Somaliland (PHOTOS) Mike Arkus 2010
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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 2011
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The northern section of Somalia, which proclaimed its independence in 1991, is free of the mindless violence tearing the rest of the country apart and offers rewarding sites from age-old rock paintings to spectacular escarpments to blinding white beaches -- much indeed to interest the visitor who ventures on this road less traveled.
Mike Arkus: Off the Beaten Track: A Few Pointers for Navigating Somaliland (PHOTOS) Mike Arkus 2010
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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 Richard Bangs 2011
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The northern section of Somalia, which proclaimed its independence in 1991, is free of the mindless violence tearing the rest of the country apart and offers rewarding sites from age-old rock paintings to spectacular escarpments to blinding white beaches -- much indeed to interest the visitor who ventures on this road less traveled.
Mike Arkus: Off the Beaten Track: A Few Pointers for Navigating Somaliland (PHOTOS) Mike Arkus 2010
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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 Richard Bangs 2011
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The northern section of Somalia is free of the mindless violence tearing the rest of the country apart and offers rewarding sites from age-old rock paintings to spectacular escarpments to blinding white beaches.
Mike Arkus: Off the Beaten Track: A Few Pointers for Navigating Somaliland (PHOTOS) Mike Arkus 2010
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