Definitions for "Escarpment"
Keywords:  cliff, steep, scarp, erosion, plateau
A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp.
Inner wall of ditch. (Scarp)
A long, more or less continuous cliff or relatively steep slope facing in one general direction, produced by erosion or faulting.
Keywords:  eschar, eschatology
Eschar Eschatology