As they are little protected by talus, which commonly is removed about as fast as formed, these escarpments and the walls of the valleys retreat indefinitely, exposing some hard stratum beneath which forms the floor of a widening terrace.
The river here cuts its way through a ridge; on the eastern side of it are the lofty escarpments of red argillaceous sandstone, which are called the Red Buttes.
On the south they are smooth, with occasional streaks of pine; but the butte itself is ragged, with escarpments of red feldspathic granite, and dark with pines; the snow reaching from the summit to within a few hundred feet of the trail.
It is cut up by gullies of basaltic rock, escarpments of which appear everywhere in the hills.
In the escarpments which border the creeks, it is seen alternating with a light-colored granite, at an inclination of 45°; the beds varying in thickness from two or three feet to six or eight hundred.
In the first range were visible, as at the Red Buttes on the North fork, very loftyescarpments of red rock.
We glided on without further interruption between very rocky and high steep mountains, which sweep along the river valley at a little distance, covered with forests of pine, and showing occasionally lofty escarpments of red rock.
On Sandy creek the formation was of parti- colored sand, exhibited in escarpments fifty to eighty feet high.
A dome-shaped block, Lille Dimon, was the most striking island, while the almost perpendicular escarpments of Skuo stood as evidence of the power of the stormy Atlantic, whose seas continually beat at the base of the cliffs.
There commence the irregular horizontal rows of caves, stretching eastwards, where the escarpments are most abrupt.
Close up now, on our left hand, towered the escarpments of the range, fronting the opposite cliffs of the tableland.
The clouds cannot leap the gigantic bulwark of the mountains at this south-eastern angle of the sea; they cling to the fir-clad slopes or put out hands and scale the escarpments until they become exhausted and dissolve.
The rocky escarpments of the opposite parapet were seen to consist of a compound diabase, veined in places with beautiful marbles.
It radiates out into long flat tongues; and its steep escarpments are littered all over with the big black boulders that have fallen from the bristly fringe along the upper edge.
Along the two escarpments the engineer followed almost exactly the sinuosities of the edge of the plateau, but placing the gates in the re-entering angles.
On the plateau the cannonade on both sides was continuing, and the escarpments of the two bastions II.
B]] The foregoing description and drawings will show, that the evidence of certain escarpments of the chalk having been originally sea-cliffs, is far more full and satisfactory in France than in England.
The true nature of such escarpments is nowhere more obvious than in parts of Normandy, where the river Seine and its tributaries flow through deep winding valleys, hollowed out of chalk horizontally stratified.
Their inner and steeper escarpments are ranged in an irregular curve, which rudely follows the line of the shore, two or three miles inland from it.
These mountains have, or apparently once had, their escarpments steep towards the interior of the island, and their strata dip outwards.
Most of their forces had retreated southwards during the incessant rains, and would soon occupy the third (and final) ring of their prepared, underground defenses, a series of fortifiedescarpments in the Kiyamu Peninsula.
Meanwhile, the Army divisions of XXIV Corps warily approached two towering escarpments in their zone, Yuza Dake and Yaeju Dake.
The escarpments do not intersect, like sea-cliffs, a series of distinct rocks, but are always confined to the boundary-line of the same formation.
Still the present escarpments so much resembling sea-cliffs have no doubt, for reasons above stated, derived their most characteristic features subsequently to emergence from subaerial waste by rain and rivers.
The above theory is by no means inconsistent with the opinion that the limits of the outcrop of the chalk and greensand which the escarpments now follow, were originally determined by marine denudation.
The long shadows which were projected across the wilderness, and the roseate flush which the setting sun had cast upon the westward-facing escarpments behind us, have both disappeared together.
Up through the tropical forests and among the appalling escarpments of the Sierra.
The Mexican Cordillera conceals, beyond and above it, the famous Great Plateau; the mesa central, running to the northwards eight hundred miles or more, and reaching westwardly to the steep escarpments of the Pacific slope.
Cracks among the strata may now have become open fissures, vertical escarpments formed by unequal elevations along the lines of fault; and subsidence may have given rise to many of the tarns and lakes of the district.
The sheet of Chalk shows its cut edges in the escarpmentsfacing the centre of the Weald, and surrounding it in an oval ring, the eastern end of which is broken by the Strait of Dover, so that its completion must be sought in France.
Steep towards the west, where it overlooks the low Lias plain as the Oolitic escarpment, the land falls very gently in slopes of Oxford Clay towards the Cretaceous escarpments on the south and east.
The low escarpments of the harder beds of the Lias are the real, though often scarcely perceptible, boundary between the Triassic plain and the Jurassic belt.
Here and there boulders and escarpments of rock would break through the forest soil, which would be mossy, thick with undergrowth, and entangled with rotting fallen trunks and branches, crossing at every conceivable angle.
Through it descended raging and destructive torrents which here might be checked and foamed over dead logs, whilst in another place they cut out bare earth-escarpments or started new waterfalls which ate back into the hills behind.
The close similarity to elegans of Wied's specimen indicates that the locality of capture possibly was in the region of the less humid, low escarpments of southern Bahia.
As a result a large cliseral change was initiated, which shifted the forest-climax to the more humid eastern escarpments and lowlands that were gradually being developed, while the savanna climax was being established on the plateau.
At the time that they were formed, the surface must have presented precipitous escarpments (as represented by the dotted lines in Fig.
The steepescarpments and the high rugged shafts of rock (Fig.
If the strata dip east the outcrops of the harder beds will form escarpments facing the west, and the direction of the escarpments will obviously change with the direction of the dip.
The rough ridges have been rounded off, the sharp escarpments have been bevelled, the abrupt tors and peaks have been smoothed down.
Thus, escarpments and the terraced aspect of many hill-slopes are due to inequalities in the strata of which such hills are built up.
When the dip of the strata is north-east we expect the escarpments to face the south-west, and the reverse will be the case when the strata incline in the opposite direction.
Thus, the Sidlaws in Forfarshire consist of a series of hard igneous rocks and interbedded sandstones and flags--the outcrops of which form a succession of escarpments with intervening hollows.
In the Silurian districts no such terraces or escarpments exist, the general high dip of the strata, which often approaches the vertical, precluding any such contour.
It has carried away the sharp edges of escarpments and ridges, and has deepened the intervening hollows in a somewhat irregular way, so that now these catch the drainage of the land and form lakes.
In Scotland similar escarpments occur, but owing to sudden changes of the dip, and various interruptions of the strata, the Scottish escarpments are not so continuous as those of the sister-country.
In the Highlands the strata are most frequently inclined at considerable angles, so that the escarpments succeed each other more rapidly than would be the case if the strata were less steeply inclined.
The circumference of Copernicus formed almost a perfect circle, and its steep escarpments were clearly defined.
Towards the north the escarpments were lowered by a depression which would probably have given access to the interior of the crater.
Toward the north the escarpments were lowered by a depression which would probably have given access to the interior of the crater.
The same strange figures appear upon the sheer escarpments of the mainland shore.
After dark the young Indian took his way cautiously far off into silent, unpeopled places where sharp escarpments cut like cameos against the sky.
It is bordered on nearly all portions of its periphery by descending escarpments which lead down to the adjacent valleys.
At times the breaks cross the courses of streams and cascades, and rapids are formed by the waters flowing down escarpments thus produced in loose material.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "escarpments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
