0 a ridge (= high, narrow edge along a mountain) with a gentle slope on one side and a steep slope on the other:
The Niagara escarpment is a cuesta in southern Ontario.
I had spectacular views cycling along the Cuesta de Miranda.
El Morro is technically a cuesta, a long sloping mesa terminating in an abrupt bluff.
The northwest-facing escarpment of the Jurassic chalk White Horse Hills is a UK example of a cuesta.
Michigan's cuestas are mostly buried by thick deposits of glacial drift.
The plot is located on the upper part of a low (< 250 m) dissected cuesta spur in a pericoastal range of low hills.
The alternating resistant rhyolite and easily eroded basalts produce a series of parallel sharp cuesta ridges separated by savanna plains.
Eroded monoclines leave steeply tilted resistant rock called a hogback and the less steep version is a cuesta.
Both pediment flatirons and talus flatirons are associated with the scarps of a cuesta, mesa, or butte and with their tips directed towards the scarp.
