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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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Canadian Artist and Naturalist Robert Bateman Receives Niagara Escarpment Lifetime Achievement Award.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 4/14/2009; 634 words
; ...naturalist Robert Bateman receives the Niagara Escarpment Commission's Niagara Escarpment Lifetime Achievement Award on Thursday, April...former Ontario Premier Bill Davis and Niagara Escarpment Commission Chair Don Scott, the award recognizes...
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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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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 Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario)")
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'Legacy' track runs into rule book; Escarpment officials oppose BMX motocross site that keen founder, 20, died creating on private land.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario); 5/5/2008; 700+ words
; ...track, are in a fight with the Niagara Escarpment Commission, which wants the site levelled...club members to the scene until the escarpment authorities intervened. Now supporters...who represents Halton Region on the escarpment commission, said the track doesn...
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 "The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, Ontario)")
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Escarpment benefit gets a little Feist-y.(Go)
Newspaper article from: The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, Ontario); 9/9/2008; 668 words
; ...lineup for the second annual I Love The Escarpment benefit concert Sept. 20 in north Burlington...benefit. Leslie (Feist) lives on the escarpment, north of Toronto, and has an interest...of the founders of PERL (Protecting Escarpment Rural Land), which was formed in opposition...
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Escarpment quarry opponents hail report; Its authors agree significant wetland would be lost.(GTA)
Newspaper article from: The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario); 3/4/2009; 625 words
; ...Funston Sarah Harmer has been singing the Escarpment Blues, composed to protest plans for...start a citizens' group, Protecting Escarpment Rural Land, to oppose the bid by Nelson...an 80-hectare site on the Niagara Escarpment, designated a World Biosphere Reserve...
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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; 662 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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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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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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Tonga
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...rises to more than 1,000 meters, the escarpment hills facing the Middle Zambezi Valley...600 meters below the plateau, and the escarpment hills within Zimbabwe. The Middle Zambezi...varies from nearly 80 centimeters at the escarpment edges to 40 centimeters in northern...
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