escarpment
steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations
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escarpment
Summary
escarpment ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (634 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- escarpment's image is recorded as Cuesta - Lookout Mountain, Georgia.png[2].
- escarpment's subclass of is recorded as slope[3].
- escarpment's part of is recorded as cuesta[4].
- escarpment's Commons category is recorded as Escarpments[5].
- escarpment's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 27875[6].
- escarpment's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/018vs6[7].
- escarpment's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Escarpments[8].
- escarpment's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/escarpment-geology[9].
- escarpment's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/scarp-geology[10].
- escarpment's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/escarpment-oceanography[11].
- escarpment's different from is recorded as Q21082754[12].
- escarpment's GeoNames feature code is recorded as U.ESCU[13].
- escarpment's GeoNames feature code is recorded as T.SCRP[14].
- escarpment's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00031562n[15].
- escarpment's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/122srx_g[16].
- escarpment's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000280[17].
- escarpment's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as escarpments[18].
- escarpment's Environment Ontology ID is recorded as 00000280[19].
- escarpment's Canadian Encyclopedia article ID is recorded as escarpment[20].
- escarpment's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 179226041[21].
- escarpment's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/5847[22].
- escarpment's KBpedia ID is recorded as Escarpment[23].
- escarpment's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 09297058-n[24].
- escarpment's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C179226041[25].
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Works and Contributions
Things named for escarpment include Leitner[26], a family name[27].
Why It Matters
escarpment ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (634 views/month).[1] escarpment has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] escarpment is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]
Entities named for escarpment include Leitner[26], a family name[27].