Search results for "Escarpment" - New World Encyclopedia
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- then traveled north east along the Chiltern escarpment to the Saxon fort at Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, and waited there to receive the submission ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- of the mountain is a steep, 2200 foot (650 m) escarpment. The western side (the Kaiparowits Plateau) is a shallow slope descending to the south and ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 14:39, 31 December 2022
- to a previously reconnoitered position on an escarpment at Mont St Jean, a few miles south of the village of Waterloo. Napoleon took the reserve of ...46 KB (6,954 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- ) escarpment, cuts across the central section of the state and marks the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau, where the state experienced ...21 KB (2,995 words) - 02:46, 15 August 2023
- plain rising gently to a low central escarpment, located east of Saudi ... trees grow. The interior contains an escarpment that rises to 400-foot ...38 KB (5,603 words) - 05:46, 26 August 2023
- of a hard, resistant igneous diabase rock escarpment, known as the Whin Sill. The wall incorporated Agricola's Ditch. [http://www.megalithic ...23 KB (3,617 words) - 16:37, 21 January 2024
- region. It extends west and south from the escarpment of the Great Western Tiers and abuts the Walls of Jerusalem National Park. It is also known ...24 KB (3,392 words) - 04:34, 27 February 2023
- flat, except to the north where there is an escarpment, remains of an extinct volcano. The majority of roads in the city are unpaved, getting dusty ...22 KB (3,196 words) - 17:23, 10 February 2023
- Mexico's West Mesa, a volcanic basalt escarpment that dominates the city’s western horizon. The 7,236 acre (29.28 km²) monument is cooperatively ...25 KB (3,776 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- in instrumentation, including the double escarpment piano action, the valved wind instrument, and the chin rest for violins and violas, were ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 17:43, 20 December 2022
- A small cairn at the foot of the Niagara Escarpment marks the spot where Brock fell, while an impressive monument, built by public subscription ...28 KB (4,513 words) - 18:55, 7 March 2024
- is in a central location. A steep limestone escarpment known as Gellért Hill overlooking the Danube lies south of Castle Hill, and has the Citadel ...27 KB (3,960 words) - 16:54, 22 November 2023
- Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system, orbiting the Sun once every 88 days. Its brightness ranges from about -2.0 ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- the land quickly rises over a mountainous escarpment toward the interior plateau known as the Highveld. Even though South Africa is classified as ...35 KB (4,809 words) - 15:13, 27 April 2023
- of the Golan Heights consists of a rock escarpment that rises 500 meters ... north-south at the base of the Golan escarpment. An advantage Israel possessed ...66 KB (10,247 words) - 22:42, 29 January 2023
- A glacier is a large, slow-moving river of ice formed from compacted and crystallized layers of snow. A glacier slowly deforms and flows in response ...37 KB (5,884 words) - 14:29, 22 May 2024
- defining feature is the fault-based "Escarpment," a long ridge that extends west to east. The Barbecue Bottom Road, which runs north-south, ...31 KB (4,663 words) - 01:31, 8 February 2023
- when the waterflow encountered a limestone escarpment. Another similar waterfall, at the present Clark Reservation State Park near Syracuse, New York ...38 KB (5,850 words) - 17:11, 10 February 2024
- Avenue, the Casa Loma grounds sit above this escarpment. Although not remarkably hilly, Toronto does have elevation differences ranging from 75 metres ...43 KB (6,252 words) - 23:37, 15 January 2024
- of the coastal country known as the Konkan, an escarpment rising up to the Western Ghats range of mountains, which separate it from the Deccan Plateau ...39 KB (5,868 words) - 03:54, 24 May 2024
