The rock displayed here in the escarpments is a compact amorphous trap, which appears to constitute the mass of the Blue mountains in this latitude; and all the region of country through which we have traveled since leaving the Snake river has been the seat of violent and extensive igneous action. ❋ Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont (1851)
Horsham, and Winchelsea to Boulogne, and as shown in the following section, taken from Professor Ramsay, we have on each side of the axis two ridges or "escarpments," one that of the Chalk, the other that of the Greensand, while between the Chalk and the Greensand is a valley, and between the Greensand and the ridge of Hastings Sand an undulating plain, in each case with a gentle slope from about where the London and ❋ John Lubbock (1873)
In the morning we wheel south into the vast, rocky ocean that is the Namibian desert, an endless retreat of buttes and ravines, ridges and terraced escarpments, the compacted age lines of the earth as deep and hard and revealing as the dark weather-carved face of an aged German miner. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)
The northern section of Somalia, which proclaimed its independence in 1991, is free of the mindless violence tearing the rest of the country apart and offers rewarding sites from age-old rock paintings to spectacular escarpments to blinding white beaches -- much indeed to interest the visitor who ventures on this road less traveled. ❋ Mike Arkus (2010)
The northern section of Somalia is free of the mindless violence tearing the rest of the country apart and offers rewarding sites from age-old rock paintings to spectacular escarpments to blinding white beaches. ❋ Mike Arkus (2010)
Mr. Evans, who moved to the small town of Marathon in 1988, captures the profound West Texas emptiness, where endless horizons are broken only by isolated escarpments such as the Chisos Mountains, which the writer and environmentalist Edward Abbey called 'a castled fortification of Wagnerian gods.' ❋ Unknown (2011)
Such spirits were often associated with caves, rivers, floodplains, termite mounds, mountaintops, escarpments, or other designated sacred sites. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Muybridge was a daredevil who had himself lowered over precipices by ropes, and ventured on to escarpments where his team of pack-carriers refused to follow. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Also of significance are its sprawling escarpments, which give way to generous plains that lead to the East African coast. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The high, dry ridges and rocky escarpments of the Middle Belt also provided an ideal defense against Muslim slave raiders for non-Muslim hill people like the Goemai. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Vital to the survival of this art across generations, over desiccated Wadis and desolate escarpments was the role of the poet: his dedication, his imagination and his willingness to dialogue with other poets. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The coast itself is a collection of water-worn escarpments, creating an endless succession of individual coves and bays. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The oil-hunters know the sub-sea escarpments and canyons the same way hikers know mountains and rivers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
