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- The Bandiagara Escarpment is a sandstone cliff in the Dogon country of Mali that rises almost 1,640 feet (500 m) above the lower sandy flats ...14 KB (2,194 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
- The Niagara Escarpment is a long, precipitous, cliff-like ridge of land or rock in the United States and Canada that runs westward from New York ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 23:26, 14 November 2022
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- The Niagara Escarpment is a long, precipitous, cliff-like ridge of land or rock in the United States and Canada that runs westward from New York ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 23:26, 14 November 2022
- The Bandiagara Escarpment is a sandstone cliff in the Dogon country of Mali that rises almost 1,640 feet (500 m) above the lower sandy flats ...14 KB (2,194 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
- isolated between the ocean and the escarpment, is considered to be a ... east is the foot of the Great Western Escarpment of Namibia, atop which ...11 KB (1,703 words) - 01:13, 11 November 2022
- ;Bandiagara Escarpment The Bandiagara Escarpment is a sandstone cliff in the Dogon country ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 22:05, 7 January 2024
- plateau, and eventually rises to become the Great Escarpment. The area is defined by the sharp line of the Great Escarpment, which continues almost unbroken ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- Lakes carved a path through the Niagara Escarpment en route to the Atlantic ... the river cut a gorge across the Niagara Escarpment, the north facing cliff ...27 KB (4,264 words) - 09:42, 11 March 2023
- Park: the Arnhem Land plateau and escarpment complex, known as the stone ... was under a shallow sea. The prominent escarpment wall formed sea cliffs ...37 KB (5,617 words) - 02:27, 19 December 2022
- near the Swedish island of Gotland; the Niagara Escarpment bordering Canada and the United States; Notch Peak in Utah; and the Ha Long Bay National Park ...10 KB (1,487 words) - 04:10, 29 October 2022
- while the east slope forms a steep escarpment. Thus, the crest runs principally ... center|thumb|600px|Owens Valley and the Sierra Escarpment.]] ...23 KB (3,404 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- soils of some of the summits and the Atakora escarpment one finds a greater variety of plant species with Isoberlina doka and Afzelia africana. The ...12 KB (1,767 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- and St. Josephs Island, borders the Niagara Escarpment. There are tens of thousands of islands in Georgian Bay. Most of these islands are along ...13 KB (1,901 words) - 16:41, 21 May 2024
- Much of the lake's coastline is high escarpment, falling directly into the lake. Since the surface of the lake lies 2,515 feet above sea ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 23:20, 21 October 2022
- the dissected areas surrounding it as the escarpment-rimmed plateau that is the High Plains. This downcutting and excavation by streams roughed ...26 KB (3,847 words) - 07:33, 4 January 2024
- * Portions of the Niagara Escarpment, Ontario, Canada. * The Viñales Valley in Cuba * The Cenotes of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 20:16, 28 February 2023
- hills became Great Lakes islands. The Niagara Escarpment follows the contour of the Great Lakes between New York and Wisconsin – Herbert Simon called ...32 KB (4,828 words) - 02:10, 21 January 2023
- of their northern grazing lands on the Laikipia escarpment near Mount Kenya. Some of those who lost land there were resettled in the Kitengela area. The ...18 KB (2,633 words) - 02:41, 11 March 2023
- at Mont-Aux-Sources, several kilometers from the escarpment from which the falls drop. Mont-aux-Sources is also where, as its name implies, the Orange ...17 KB (2,547 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- range, in that it rises in a steep and lofty escarpment from the Dzungarian depression (470 to 900 m), but descends on the north by a relatively short ...16 KB (2,479 words) - 08:35, 23 July 2023
- (2325 meters), Asmara is on the edge of an escarpment that is both the northwestern edge of the Great Rift Valley and of the Eritrean highlands. ...18 KB (2,473 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2023
- to southeast, and also above the Niagara Escarpment, which crosses the south ... part of the much more extensive Niagara Escarpment. The Saint Lawrence Seaway ...35 KB (5,025 words) - 00:41, 18 November 2022
