page_title: Escarpment
hierarchical_section_title: Escarpment
caption_attribution_description: Escarpment face of a en:cuesta, broken by a fault. en:Lookout Mountain, Georgia/USA Source: [Image:Cuesta0220.jpg] (now at Image:Escarpment on the Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee.jpeg) Image Processing, blue/red/shp. --Geof 01:45, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
context_page_description: An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations. Usually scarp and scarp face are used interchangeably with escarpment.
  Some sources differentiate the two terms, however, where escarpment refers to the margin between two landforms. In this usage an escarpment is a ridge which has a gentle slope on one side and a steep scarp on the other side.
  More loosely, the term scarp also describes a zone between a coastal lowland and a continental plateau which shows a marked, abrupt change in elevation caused by coastal erosion at the base of the plateau.
context_section_description: An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations. Usually scarp and scarp face are used interchangeably with escarpment.
  Some sources differentiate the two terms, however, where escarpment refers to the margin between two landforms (while scarp remains synonymous with a cliff or steep slope). In this usage an escarpment is a ridge which has a gentle slope on one side and a steep scarp on the other side.
  More loosely, the term scarp also describes a zone between a coastal lowland and a continental plateau which shows a marked, abrupt change in elevation caused by coastal erosion at the base of the plateau.
caption: Escarpment face of a cuesta, broken by a fault, overlooking Trenton, Cloudland Canyon State Park, and Lookout Mountain, in Georgia (USA)
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