The sun seared through the cloudless sky and thin air of the high escarpment, illuminating the leaves and long blanched thorns of the acacia trees.
On the northwest is the narrow Lake Erie Plain, which rises in a series of steps from the lakeshore to the high escarpment of the Appalachian Plateau.
Measurements of mean flow and turbulence characteristics at heights up to 69 m near the crest of a 480 m high escarpment are presented.
This time, we went between glistening sheets of standing water in the low-lying fields until the road climbed towards the roofs and towers of Shaftesbury silhouetted on its high escarpment.
THE Paris suburb of St.-Cloud stands on a high escarpment overlooking the Seine at the great bend of the river about six miles west of Notre Dame, near the old porcelain factory at Sevres.
On the north side an arm of the river and a high escarpment afforded natural defenses, which were augmented by a system of buttressed walls and by a powerful sally port called the mushlalu a semicircular tower of rusticated stone masonry, built by Sennacherib and probably the earliest known example of this type of architecture.
Walkers often come in for directions, but this isn't mountain country, and the locals don't use the noun of even the highest escarpments.
From the higher escarpment section of the peninsula, about halfway between the two Great Lakes, the landscape descends toward flatter land at Lake Ontario and the climate warms.
We are pootling along the smooth, rolling A roads of Sweden's west coast, past lakes, red clapperboard farmsteads, assorted summer houses with woodstacks piled high, granite escarpments, dense pine forests, sweeping meadows, green fields lined with regiments of lupins, and warning signs for moose.
The terrain in the Trout Creek Mountains ranges from broad, flat basins and rolling ridges to high rock escarpments cut by deep canyons.
