| In some cases, escarpments occur where there is no obvious lithologic or tectonic origin. |
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| The lowland rainforest is abruptly fractured by the Pakaraima Mountains, an area dominated by bold escarpments and lush, forested valleys. |
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| The eroded surfaces are now masked as damp woods which have invaded impluvia, gorges and escarpments. |
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| Many other streams and waterfalls run through this area's rocky escarpments and narrow valleys. |
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| The steep north faces of the escarpments escaped cultivation and the worst effects of logging. |
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| Sherpa villages cling to the sides of sheer mountain slopes or sit on top of steep escarpments. |
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| Flat alluvial fields rise up from the river to meet undulating slopes and escarpments that have been in cultivation since the sixteenth century. |
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| Villagers cultivate maize, wheat and barley on verdant hillside terraces buttressed by stone escarpments. |
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| It was a more rustic and northern version of Detroit with escarpments of slag and iron ore. |
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| Grain by grain, the vast foundations, the beetling escarpments, the high domes in air are crumbled away and drifted into the valleys. |
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| Continue to protect the natural setting of the Boulevard, including shorelines, escarpments, wooded areas and street trees. |
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| The sides of abyssal hills are fault escarpments created by vertical uplift of the sea floor during many events of fault slippage that produce frequent earthquakes. |
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| Its majestic escarpments and grandiose shores are the result of the ice sheet that gradually melted 70 million years ago! |
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| The valley is about 2300 feet wide and runs inland toward the west between two rocky escarpments. |
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| Gatineau Park is one of the jewels of Canada's Capital Region, encompassing more than 360 square kilometres of forests, lakes and escarpments. |
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| Scramble over ancient escarpments, see uniquely Australian flora and fauna or camp at night beneath a sea of stars. |
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| It has gently sloping land on one side and dramatic escarpments on the other, upon which are sited the Nation's major institutions. |
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| Rugged escarpments, lush wetlands, plunging gorges and cascading waterfalls spill over each other here in our largest nature park. |
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| The country's central regions are marked by plateaus and escarpments. |
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| This fully public facility just south of Calgary winds through tree-lined ravines, framed by southern Alberta's slopes and escarpments. |
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| Karst is developed in the carbonate rocks, most notably along major rivers or escarpments. |
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| The sea basin is a northward-tilting abyssal plain unmarked by distinctive escarpments or trenches. |
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| Instead, Spann followed the natural seams between peaks to form his fairways and placed his greens atop escarpments, in box canyons and beneath rocky ridges. |
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| Climb its hills or walk up its escarpments, and you can see halfway into infinity. |
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| A country of layered plateaus, with steep rises, sometimes forming escarpments, Côte d'Ivoire is mainly flat. |
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| Deposits older than the last glaciation are only exposed in steep escarpments along the margins of uplands. |
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| It is also at the base of escarpments that outcrops of cushion basalt are found. |
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| Eventually the eucalyptus and green fields of the valley bottom give way again to the lush sub-tropical rainforest that grows on the surrounding sandstone escarpments. |
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| What solitary distances, what sere, remote escarpments, what unbounded, wide eternities they are where you reside, in which no creatures of your hand appear! |
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| From the air, the tundra stretched to the south like a green-brown pillow, backdropped by the snowed escarpments of the Sadlerochits and the Brooks Range. |
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| Take part in a unique journey on the wildest stretch of the fjord and admire nature at its grandest with its escarpments, islands, spectacular waterfall and more. |
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| The valley is bounded for most of its length by the Sandia Mountains to the north, the slightly lower Manzano Mountains to the east, and the low but rugged lava escarpments to the south and west. |
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| Stop at Hells Gate, the gateway to the Northern Territory's Macassan Coast, for great views over flood plains and the Barkly Tableland escarpments. |
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| The fleet connects the spectacular flamingo-fringed soda lakes of Manyara, where Hemingway hunted, to the Great Rift Valley escarpments and the remote northern Serengeti, into which few venture. |
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| Further along, stop to see Tolmer Falls rushing over two soaring escarpments and take the easy Tolmer Falls Walk through rust-hued sandstone country. |
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| They will reserve to you ravishing surprises deploying suddenly in front of your eyes by the brutal turning of Dantesque straits their vertiginous landscapes with the superb escarpments staked out by jagged ledges. |
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| The northern and western edges of the Cotswolds are marked by steep escarpments down to the Severn valley and the Warwickshire Avon. |
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| The 'Greensand Ridge' typically refers to one of a series of escarpments formed by the Lower Greensand. |
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| The carboniferous rocks of the Yorkshire coalfield further east have produced a rolling landscape with hills, escarpments and broad valleys. |
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| Here the narrow valley of the Wachau, with its densely forested escarpments, made access to the riverbank more difficult. |
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| There are also many volcanic escarpments and waterfalls, including Kaieteur Falls which is believed to be the largest water drop in the world. |
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| Instead of the muskeg soil typically used in past reclamations, for the first time we salvaged upland soil that's found along the escarpments of the Steepbank and Athabasca rivers. |
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| Cruise the rivers past crocodiles, barramundi and birds, see rock crevices cut by Dreamtime ancestors or take a scenic flight over Kakadu's waterfalls and rugged escarpments. |
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| Cliffs are common on coasts, in mountainous areas, escarpments and along rivers. |
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| From the water, the rocky escarpments are absolutely breathtaking. |
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| Most moorland and gritstone escarpments are in the Dark Peak and most settlements, farmland and limestone gorges are in the White Peak. |
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| Lalastra is situated in the high, lonely Valderejo valley with a view of the bare escarpments that make up the anticlinal structure of the valley. The average height above sea level is 913 metres. |
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| No longer: Mr Kloppers is typical of the new breed, as happy hunting for riches in the canyons of Wall Street as along the escarpments of the Pilbara. |
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| By the time he reached the first talus slides under the tall escarpments of the Pilares the dawn was not far to come. |
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| It also occurs locally on the Fraser River floodplain between New Westminster and Mission, at the base of some upland escarpments, at mountain fronts, and within poorly drained depressions in upland areas. |
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| These escarpments correspond to the upthrusting of the earth's crust created by the formation of a super continent formed after several smaller continents collided about 600 million years ago. |
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| The sites within the nomination are situated at the foot and around the Pavagadh hill, surrounded by lower hillocks, escarpments and plateaus all result of volcanic eruptions and lava flows. |
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| The metropolitan county lies largely on the carboniferous rocks of the Yorkshire coalfield which have produced a rolling landscape with hills, escarpments and broad valleys. |
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| The species of Alcantarea are exclusively saxicolous or rupicolous, living mostly in sun-exposed areas in rocky escarpments in the domain of the Atlantic Forest. |
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