0 a steep slope or cliff, such as one that marks the edge of a range of hills
1 a long, high area of continuous rock that has one steep side
A flight of steps cut in the hillside led up to a ledge running out from an escarpment which was something above sixty feet high before giving off into the slope of the mountain.
Again, if we look to any one line of cliff or escarpment, neither its summit-edge nor its base is horizontal.
Between the escarpments of the second highest terrace the average width is about four or five miles.
From the wooded heights of the Hampshire border to that grand headland where the hills find their march arrested by the sea, the escarpment of the Downs is sixty miles long and every mile is beautiful.
Nevertheless, when I scaled a high escarpment, I could see no volcanoes within a radius of several miles.
At the base of the escarpment, about 100 km inland, the elevation is about 20 - 40 m above sea level.
The parameter estimate suggests that daily mortality in the escarpment increased by 8% after the onset of spraying.
The book contains a few mildly interesting sections on erosion and mountain building, peneplains and escarpments, and tectonic controls on drainage patterns.
