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.
The escarpment's channels provided a route for drainage of ice-marginal meltwater; the channel system was eroded into the cuesta, and along its exposed eastern facing.
The escarpment cuts through the dipping strata that comprises the cuesta.
Cuesta was refused supplies and reinforcements until local authorities could review the appointments he had made to the army.
In time, the river cut a gorge through the north facing cliff, or cuesta.
The cuesta region contains coal, black shale and some oil shales.
Cuesta, however, was reluctant to agree, and was only persuaded to advance on the following day.
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.
Eroded monoclines leave steeply tilted resistant rock called a hogback and the less steep version is a cuesta.
