Sentence examples for low escarpment from inspiring English sources

The cartographer and writer Tim Robinson describes them as "fragments of a single, long, low escarpment, a broken arm of the limestone uplands of the Burren".

Brenna could only cower on the cliff side of a low escarpment, hoping that Breivik would not notice her and her bleeding friend, while suppressing the urge to scream as bodies toppled over the cliff edge above them.

We bear northwest out of town, crossing rising ground towards a low escarpment, as Hammou shows me the tracks of porcupines and places where wild boar have foraged.

To the east of Scott Glacier the Transantarctic Mountains continue for another 175 miles, diminishing in width and relief until they are reduced to a single, low escarpment in the Ohio Range, beyond which the East and West Antarctic Ice Sheets merge, completely inundating the mountains.

Slope classes and relief classes were subsequently combined to produce eight land surface form classes (flat plains, smooth plains, irregular plains, escarpments, low hills, hills, breaks/foothills, and low mountains).

Between 1460 and 1480, while held by the Ottoman Empire, a larger defensive system was built, including escarpments, low walls, and more towers.

Water runs down an escarpment towards people's homes below.

10Be and 21Ne measured in both sanidine and quartz from three rock samples from the Oxaya ignimbrite (CN19, CN23, CN104a) in the Western Escarpment record low average landscape modification rates (<0.70 m/Ma) over the last several million years.

The valley is bounded for most of its length by the Sandia Mountains to the north, the slightly lower Manzano Mountains to the east, and the low but rugged lava escarpments to the south and west.

and semi-continuous belt lying west of Western Ghats Escarpment as low-level laterite (30 to 100 m a.s.l).. Coarse-textured shallow reddish soils occur on the foothill slopes, deep soils are found along river banks/valleys.

The rate of sediment accumulation is lowest near the escarpments on the low-energy sediment-limited sand sheets (<100 mm ka−1) and greatest near the main streams (>400 mm ka−1) that have more numerous sediment sources.