List of escarpments

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A list of escarpments follows below.

Planets

Earth

Africa

Antarctica

Asia

Australia and New Zealand

Shaded and colored image from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission--shows an elevation model of New Zealand's Alpine Fault running about 500 km (300 mi) long. The escarpment is flanked by a chain of hills squeezed between the fault and the mountains of New Zealand's Southern Alps. Northeast is towards the top. Alpine Fault SRTM (vertical).jpg
Shaded and colored image from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission—shows an elevation model of New Zealand's Alpine Fault running about 500 km (300 mi) long. The escarpment is flanked by a chain of hills squeezed between the fault and the mountains of New Zealand's Southern Alps. Northeast is towards the top.

Europe

North America

The Sierra Escarpment in California SierraEscarpmentCA.jpg
The Sierra Escarpment in California
At the Florida Escarpment, seen in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the sea bed drops precipitously from less than 300 to 3,000 m (1,000 to 10,000 ft) over a short distance. Fixed gulf map.png
At the Florida Escarpment, seen in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the sea bed drops precipitously from less than 300 to 3,000 m (1,000 to 10,000 ft) over a short distance.

South America

Mars

Perspective view of the Martian polar ice cap and Rupes Tenuis with Abalos Mensa on the left of the picture. Rupes Tenuis perspective view ESA240369.jpg
Perspective view of the Martian polar ice cap and Rupes Tenuis with Abalos Mensa on the left of the picture.

Mercury

Discovery Rupes Discovery Rupes.jpg
Discovery Rupes

Venus

Natural satellites

Moon

Oblique view of Rupes Recta (left) Rupes Recta Birt crater AS16-M-2486 ASU.jpg
Oblique view of Rupes Recta (left)

Miranda

Titania

Asteroids

Lutetia

Vesta

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cuesta</span> Hill or ridge with a gentle slope on one side and a steep slope on the other

A cuesta is a hill or ridge with a gentle slope on one side, and a steep slope on the other. In geology, the term is more specifically applied to a ridge where a harder sedimentary rock overlies a softer layer, the whole being tilted somewhat from the horizontal. This results in a long and gentle backslope called a dip slope that conforms with the dip of resistant strata, called caprock. Where erosion has exposed the frontslope of this, a steep slope or escarpment occurs. The resulting terrain may be called scarpland.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pembina Escarpment</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hogback (geology)</span> Long, narrow ridge

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Erie Plain</span>

The Erie Plain is a lacustrine plain that borders Lake Erie in North America. From Buffalo, New York, to Cleveland, Ohio, it is quite narrow, but broadens considerably from Cleveland around Lake Erie to Southern Ontario, where it forms most of the Ontario peninsula. The Erie Plain was used in the United States as a natural gateway to the North American interior, and in both the United States and Canada the plain is heavily populated and provides very fertile agricultural land.

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