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	Escarpment - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Most commonly, an escarpment, also called a scarp, is a transition from one series of sedimentary rocks to another series of a different age and composition.
		In England escarpments are found in a diagonal line across the country from the Yorkshire coast on the North Sea to the Hampshire coast on the English Channel.
		There the features of an escarpment include the scarp slope (the leading edge); the dip slope, dry valleys, coombes (both in chalk country) and clay vales occur on the side away from the scarp.
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		Examples of erosional escarpments include the Palisades along the Hudson River and the long break separating the coastal region from the inland area in Texas, roughly paralleling the coast.
		Landscape characterization of the Niagara escarpment in Southwestern Ohio by use of geographic information science technology.
		An area of sandstone plateaux, escarpments and gorges dominated by eucalyt forests.
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		escarpment or scarp, long cliff, bluff, or steep slope, caused usually by geologic faulting (see fault) or by erosion of tilted rock layers.
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