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scarp: see escarpment escarpment or scarp, long cliff, bluff, or steep slope, caused usually by geologic faulting (see fault ) or by erosion of tilted rock layers. An example of a fault scarp is the north face of the San Jacinto Mts. in California. ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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When it came they looked across the valley and saw that what had been forest, and terraced field, and track-threaded grazing-ground was one raw, red, fan-shaped smear, with a few trees flung head-down on the scarp. Fouquet," said Buckingham, "I leave the captain with you, he is more learned than I am in bastions, scarps, and counter-scarps, and I will join one of my friends, who has just beckoned me. Above that, in scarps and blocks upheaved, the rocks strove to fight their heads above the white smother. |
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