escarpment
Noun
Meaning
A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp.
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Freshwater can be found in Buada lagoon, and also in some brackish ponds at the escarpment base in Ijuw and Anabar in the northeast.
By late afternoon, the French army had not succeeded in driving Wellington's forces from the escarpment on which they stood.
Bamako is relatively flat, except to the immediate north where an escarpment is found, being what remains of an extinct volcano.
Great deserts Three great deserts isolate Najd from north, east, and south as the Red Sea escarpment does from the west.
In 2014, a recently discovered escarpment on Mars was named the McClure-Beverlin Ridge in honor of the pair, who had since passed on.
It is bounded by the Serengeti Park to the south, the Siria escarpment to the west, and Maasai pastoral ranches to the north, east and west.