# List of escarpments

A list of escarpments follows below.

## Planets
### Earth
#### Africa

* Elgeyo Escarpment (Great Rift Valley)
* Great Escarpment, Southern Africa
** Including the Drakensberg and God's Window in Mpumalanga's Eastern Escarpment
* Bandiagara Escarpment (Mali)
* Zambezi Escarpment (Zambia)
* East coast, Madagascar

#### Antarctica

* Usas Escarpment

#### Asia

* Sharon Escarpment, Israel
* Tuwaiq, Saudi Arabia
* Vindhya Range, India
* Western Ghats, India
* Wulian Feng, China

#### Australia and New Zealand

* Australia
** Great Escarpment, Australia
** Darling Scarp
** Illawarra Escarpment
** Lake George Escarpment
** Nullarbor Escarpment
* New Zealand
** The western slope of the Southern Alps (along the Alpine Fault)
** The Kaimai escarpment, above the Hauraki Plains
** The Paekākāriki escarpment between Paekākāriki and Pukerua Bay

#### Europe

* England
** Cotswold escarpment
** Chiltern escarpment
** Mountjoy, Durham
** North Downs
** South Downs
** A common placename denominating an escarpment in England is "edge" as in
*** Alderley Edge
*** Edge Hill famous as the place of the first battle of the English Civil War
*** Kinver Edge
*** The Lincoln Edge
*** Stanage Edge
*** Wenlock Edge
* Scotland
** Quiraing, Trotternish, Isle of Skye
* Wales
** Eglwyseg
** Black Mountain (range)
** Black Mountains, Wales
** Pen y Fan
* France
** La Côte d'Or is famous for its wines and has given its name to a département, Côte-d'Or.
** Le Pays de Bray, a clay vale enclosed by chalk escarpments.
* Sweden, Estonia and Russia
** Baltic Klint
** Gotland–Saaremaa Klint
** South Småland-Sub-Cambrian escarpment
* Malta
** Victoria Lines
** Malta Escarpment (underwater)

#### North America

* Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line
* Florida Escarpment, Gulf of Mexico
* Sigsbee Escarpment, Gulf of Mexico
* Canada
** Cape Hotham Escarpment (Nunavut)
** Devil's Rock (Lake Temiskaming, Ontario)
** Eagle Hills Escarpment (Saskatchewan)
** Eardley Escarpment (Mattawa Fault, Gatineau Park, Quebec)
** Etsho Escarpment (British Columbia)
** Long Point Escarpment (Ontario)
** Manitoba Escarpment (Manitoba, Saskatchewan)
** Mess Creek Escarpment (British Columbia)
** Naujan Escarpment (Nunavut)
** Niagara Escarpment (Ontario)
** Onondaga (geological formation) (Ontario)
** Pembina Escarpment (Manitoba)
** Scarborough Bluffs (Toronto, Ontario)
** Weston Escarpment (Nunavut)
* United States
** Allegheny Front (West Virginia-Maryland-Pennsylvania)
** Blue Ridge Escarpment (North Carolina–Virginia)
** Balcones Fault (Texas)
** Bergen Hill (New Jersey)
** Black River Escarpment (Wisconsin)
** Book Cliffs (Colorado–Utah)
** Caprock Escarpment (Texas)
** Catskill Escarpment (New York)
** The Chinese Wall (Montana)
** Cody Scarp (Florida)
** Devil's Slide (California)
** Helderberg Escarpment (New York)
** Hell's Half Acre (Wyoming)
** Knobstone Escarpment (Indiana)
** Lewiston Hill (Idaho-Washington)
** Long Point Escarpment (New York)
** Magnesian Escarpment (Wisconsin)
** Mescalero Ridge (New Mexico)
** Missouri Escarpment (North Dakota)
** Mogollon Rim (Arizona)
** Muldraugh Hill (Kentucky)
** Niagara Escarpment (New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois)
** Onondaga (geological formation) (New York)
** Pine Ridge (Nebraska–South Dakota)
** Pembina Escarpment (North Dakota)
** Portage Escarpment (Ohio)
** Potrero Hills in (California)
** Pottsville Escarpment (Kentucky–Tennessee)
** The Rimrocks (Montana)
** Sierra Nevada eastern slope (California)
* The Caribbean
** Bahamas Escarpment (Bahamas)

#### South America

* Brazil
** Great Escarpment, Brazil
*** Serra do Mar (São Paulo)
** Serra da Mantiqueira (São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro)
* Chile
** West Andean Escarpment

### Mars

* Amenthes Rupes
* Argyre Rupes
* Arimanes Rupes
* Avernus Rupes
* Bosporos Rupes
* Chalcoporos Rupēs
* Claritas Rupes
* Cydnus Rupēs
* Elysium Rupes
* Hephaestus Rupēs
* Hiddekel Rupes
* Icaria Rupes
* Morpheos Rupes
* Nilokeras Scopulus
* Nord Rupes
* Ogygis Rupes
* Olympus Rupes
* Olympia Rupēs
* Panchaia Rupēs
* Phison Rupes
* Phrixi Rupes
* Pityusa Rupes
* Promethei Rupes
* Rupes Tenuis
* Tartarus Rupes
* Thyles Rupes
* Ulyxis Rupes
* Utopia Rupēs

### Mercury

* Acadia Rupes
* Adventure Rupes
* Altair Rupes
* Alvin Rupes
* Antares Rupes
* Arquipelago Rupes
* Astrolabe Rupes
* Beagle Rupes
* Belgica Rupes
* Blossom Rupes
* Calypso Rupes
* Carnegie Rupes
* Challenger Rupes
* Discovery Rupes
* Duyfken Rupes
* Eltanin Rupes
* Endeavour Rupes
* Enterprise Rupes
* Fram Rupes
* Gjöa Rupes
* Heemskerck Rupes
* Hero Rupes
* Kainan Rupes
* La Duaphine Rupes
* Mirni Rupes
* Nautilus Rupes
* Palmer Rupes
* Paramour Rupes
* Pelagia Rupes
* Pourquoi-Pas Rupes
* Resolution Rupes
* Santa María Rupes
* Terror Rupes
* Unity Rupes
* Vejas Rupes
* Victoria Rupes
* Vostok Rupes
* Zapiola Rupes
* Zarya Rupes
* Zeehaen Rupes

### Venus

* Fornax Rupes
* Gabie Rupes
* Hestia Rupes
* Uorsar Rupes
* Ut Rupes
* Vaidilute Rupes
* Vesta Rupes

## Natural satellites
### Moon

* Rupes Altai
* Rupes Boris
* Rupes Cauchy
* Rupes Kelvin
* Rupes Liebig
* Rupes Mercator
* Rupes Recta
* Rupes Toscanelli

### Miranda

* Argier Rupes
* Verona Rupes

### Titania

* Rousillon Rupes

## Asteroids
### Lutetia

* Glana Rupes
* Rhenus Rupes

### Vesta

* Agonium Rupes
* Matronalia Rupes
* Parentatio Rupes