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escarpment

A long, steep face of rock or dirt.

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Moving into action, the men of Company B, 307th Infantry, cleared the base of the escarpment with flame throwers, grenades, and small-arms fire.

Desmond Doss: his only weapon was his conscience

From the rugged sandstone escarpment of the Kimba Plateau through to the wetland and river systems that flow west into the Gulf of Carpentaria, Olkola country is a diverse range of ecosystems and landforms.

Who are the Olkola?

It is only a short easy walk from Corn Du and provides an excellent viewpoint east along the escarpment. Easy access from the Storey Arms makes it a popular excursion and unless the weather is bad you can not expect to have the summit to yourself.

DAYTRIPPER

The Baltic Klint, formed of Cambrian and Ordovician rocks on the boundary of the Fennoscandian Shield and the Russian Platform, is not only a steep escarpment but is often identified as a system of terraces separated by escarpments (Tammekann 1940; Suuroja 2003, 2005).

Slope processes at the North Estonian Klint/Nolvaprotsessid Pohja-Eesti paekaldal

In the Niagara Escarpment region close to the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Canada's major metropolitan area, the struggle between the aggregate industry and exurban communities' physical presence and amenity aspirations is especially intense.

Winning back more than words? Power, discourse and quarrying on the Niagara Escarpment

Surveyed streambanks were typical of the massive escarpments along the watercourse and appeared to be actively eroding.

Streambank slumping and its contribution to the phosphorus and suspended sediment loads of the Blue Earth River, Minnesota

Not just in terms of the physical magnitude of the bores, with the Endrick Escarpment and Cataract Rivers to contend with, but with the environmental considerations involved in conducting drilling operations in national parks, state recreational and catchment areas.

Australia's First Major Competing Interstate Gas Pipeline

A series of isolated conifer woodlands occupy an escarpment on the western Great Plains that stretches from Pine Bluffs, Wyoming, to Pawnee Buttes, Colorado.

A comparison of limber pine (Pinus flexilis) ages at lower and upper treeline sites east of the Continental Divide in Colorado

Most of the ski hills in the province are on ridges or escarpments, he notes.

Upgraded Kamiskotia ski hill now competitive in province

The downpour destroyed the Yokot water pan in Keiyo North, occasioning a water run-off that swept through villages in Kessup area on the Kerio escarpments.

Road impassable, food out of reach after rains in Elgeyo

- Accommodation final ecological criteria - nature of the escarpments of the line Alptransit with the planting of shrubs and bushy species (with its initial cure) and the maintenance of green areas.

Creation of compensatory afforestation by planting trees

In the background, three--no, four; no five!--rivulets switch back through rocky escarpments to collide in a foaming pool behind her.