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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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