escarpment

Converse of subject

mark: The northern and western edges of the Cotswolds are marked by steep escarpments down to the Severn valley and the Avon.

Converse of object

• climb: As we climb the escarpment onto the plateau the dirt road degenerates into a couple of wheel ruts.
• face: The part of the WEA on the west facing escarpment should not be proposed for development.
• form: A large entrance forms an escarpment at the west end.
• follow: This was so named because it followed the escarpment.
• descend: To access the beach you must descend the rocky escarpment that shelters the bay, via a steep flight of steps.
• see: From where we stood we could see the escarpment of the African Rift Valley.

Adjective modifier

• magnesian: In a local context, it is understood that parts of the magnesian limestone escarpment are potentially suitable for designation.
• Cretaceous: Below the Cretaceous Tertiary escarpment, the low ground is underlain by soft sedimentary rocks of the Triassic Mercia Mudstone Group.
• Tertiary: Below the Cretaceous Tertiary escarpment, the low ground is underlain by soft sedimentary rocks of the Triassic Mercia Mudstone Group.
• wooded: The wooded escarpment of Wenlock Edge, today managed by the National Trust, is the remnants of the Royal ' Long Forest ' .
• rocky: The rocky escarpment behind our hotel was home to many pigeons.
• steep: A group of eight of us walked to a pub along a steep escarpment.

Modifies a noun

• slope: The southern boundary of the LCA is marked by a steeper escarpment slope.
• wall: The plain stretches away, flat and wide, between the escarpment walls of the Rift Valley, south toward Tanzania.

Noun used with modifier

• basalt: However, the summits along the edge of the basalt escarpment have much steeper slopes which plummet toward Belfast.
• chalk: To the south is the chalk escarpment, which runs from the south coast to Norfolk.
• limestone: Houghton Le Spring Houghton le Spring sits at the foot of the magnesium limestone escarpment northeast of Durham.
• sandstone: This is a sandstone escarpment the line of which we follow for a good number of miles.
• rock: View of quarry looking west from the top of the rock escarpment, October 1936.