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escarpment
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es·carp·ment
/ iˈskärpmənt/
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n.
a long, steep slope, esp. one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights.
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Town split over use of Niagara escarpment
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 9/25/2000; 583 words
; Town split over use of Niagara escarpment Residents weighing development, preservation...of the geologically significant Niagara Escarpment, known locally as the Ledge. Residents along the escarpment, which runs through northern Fond du...
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DOING LESS WITH LESS.(Niagra Escarpment Commission survives on low funding)
Magazine article from: Alternatives Journal; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...streamlining has weakened the Niagara Escarpment Commission's ability to protect one...some environmentalists, the Niagara Escarpment Commission (NEC) is still in place...enough to serve its mandate. The Niagara Escarpment is one of only six World Biosphere Reserves...
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Internal tide radiation from Mendocino escarpment
Magazine article from: Journal of Physical Oceanography; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...tides are observed near Mendocino Escarpment in full-depth profile time series...barotropic tide interacting with the escarpment. A baroclinic energy flux of 7 kW m^sup -1^ radiates from the escarpment, corresponding to 3% of the 220...
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Tracing the connections among municipal amalgamation, community identity, and planning for the Niagara Escarpment in Ontario. (Ideas).
Magazine article from: Environments; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...advisors. Current research on the Niagara Escarpment, a world renowned landscape feature...already tenuous circumstances of the Escarpment's legislated protection by constraining...such heritage, including the Niagara Escarpment, will depend on respect for existing...
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New Niagara Escarpment Quarry Proposal Headed to Ontario Municipal Board.
News Wire article from: CNW Group; 11/20/2008; 700+ words
; ...Ministry of Natural Resources, the Niagara Escarpment Commission, Halton Region and the City...landform in North Burlington on the Niagara Escarpment and in Ontario's Greenbelt. Mount...Harmer, co-founder of Protecting Escarpment Rural Land (PERL). Conservative estimates...
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Escarpment rocks on.(CAMPAIGNS)(environmental advocacy for Niagara Escarpment through music )(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Alternatives Journal; 7/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...the first time since the Niagara Escarpment Plan came into effect, according...Whitbread, manager of the Niagara Escarpment Commission (NEC), the Ontario...citizen advocacy group, Protecting Escarpment Rural Land, fought the proposal...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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MANLIUS ESCARPMENT LIKELY TO BE DECIDED.(Neighbors East)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 2/1/2007; 687 words
; ...will vote on designating the Onondaga Escarpment a critical environmental area after...Frateschi said the town should define the escarpment in the broadest possible way in the...Conservation was consulted on how to define the escarpment's boundaries in the legal notice...
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NSW: Illawarra Escarpment should be protected: Greens
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 10/1/2002; 210 words
; 00-00-0000 NSW: Illawarra Escarpment should be protected: Greens SYDNEY...government should list the Illawarra Escarpment as a national park to protect it...Minister Bob Debus asking for the escarpment to be protected. She said the...
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Exploring West Florida Escarpment with High-Resolution Geophysical Imaging
Magazine article from: Sea Technology; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...of this hidden realm. West Florida Escarpment In December 2005, C & C Technologies...continental margin, the West Florida Escarpment (WFE). The WFE is the steep, rugged...around western Florida. Slopes on the escarpment are frequently greater than 40, and...
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NSW: Greens: Illawarra Escarpment should be protected
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 10/1/2002; 187 words
; ...00-0000 NSW: Greens: Illawarra Escarpment should be protected Greens MP LEE RHIANNON...Government should list the Illawarra Escarpment as a national park to protect it from...Environment BOB DEBUS asking for the escarpment to be protected. She says the escarpment...
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escarpment
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...of the largest escarpments on Earth is the Great Escarpment of southern Africa...Natal region. Escarpments similar to the Great Escarpment occur along the...eroded from the escarpment face. Even more impressive escarpments can be foun
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Sotho
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
...Lesotho in the south, to the humid escarpment and hot low veld in the east. In most...in the west and high on the eastern escarpment. Summer months (October to February...of whom are located on or below the escarpment in the low veld. On the edge of the...
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Dogon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...villages along a 145-kilometer stretch of escarpment called the Cliffs of Bandiagara. Plains, escarpment, and plateau represent distinctive features...moved into the region of the Bandiagara escarpment in the fifteenth or sixteenth century...
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Texas
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States
...densely populated region. The Balcones Escarpment (so-called by the Spanish because...from the Blackland Belt to the Cap Rock Escarpment, a natural boundary carved by erosion...also found here. West of the Cap Rock Escarpment are the Great Plains, stretching north...
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morphotectonics
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...coastal zone, which is backed by a great escarpment (see escarpments ). The great escarpment is embayed by major valleys, and a belt...the direction from sea to land. The great escarpment retreats and may reach or pass the warp...
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