List of escarpments

A list of escarpments follows below.

Planets

Earth

Africa

• Elgeyo Escarpment (Great Rift Valley)
• Great Escarpment, Southern Africa
• Including the Drakensberg and God's Window in Mpumalanga's Eastern Escarpment
• Bandiagara Escarpment (Mali)
• Zambezi Escarpment (Zambia)
• East coast, Madagascar

Antarctica

• Usas Escarpment

Asia

• Sharon Escarpment, Israel
• Tuwaiq, Saudi Arabia
• Vindhya Range, India
• Western Ghats, India
• Wulian Feng, China

Australia and New Zealand

• Australia
• Great Escarpment, Australia
• Darling Scarp
• Illawarra Escarpment
• Lake George Escarpment
• Nullarbor Escarpment
• New Zealand
• The western slope of the Southern Alps (along the Alpine Fault)
• The Kaimai escarpment, above the Hauraki Plains
• The Paekākāriki escarpment between Paekākāriki and Pukerua Bay

Europe

• England
• Cotswold escarpment
• Chiltern escarpment
• Mountjoy, Durham
• North Downs
• South Downs
• A common placename denominating an escarpment in England is "edge" as in
• Alderley Edge
• Edge Hill famous as the place of the first battle of the English Civil War
• Kinver Edge
• The Lincoln Edge
• Stanage Edge
• Wenlock Edge
• Scotland
• Quiraing, Trotternish, Isle of Skye
• Wales
• Eglwyseg
• Black Mountain (range)
• Black Mountains, Wales
• Pen y Fan
• France
• La Côte d'Or is famous for its wines and has given its name to a département, Côte-d'Or.
• Le Pays de Bray, a clay vale enclosed by chalk escarpments.
• Sweden, Estonia and Russia
• Baltic Klint
• Gotland–Saaremaa Klint
• South SmÃ¥land-Sub-Cambrian escarpment
• Malta
• Victoria Lines
• Malta Escarpment (underwater)

North America

• Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line
• Florida Escarpment, Gulf of Mexico
• Sigsbee Escarpment, Gulf of Mexico
• Canada
• Cape Hotham Escarpment (Nunavut)
• Devil's Rock (Lake Temiskaming, Ontario)
• Eagle Hills Escarpment (Saskatchewan)
• Eardley Escarpment (Mattawa Fault, Gatineau Park, Quebec)
• Etsho Escarpment (British Columbia)
• Long Point Escarpment (Ontario)
• Manitoba Escarpment (Manitoba, Saskatchewan)
• Mess Creek Escarpment (British Columbia)
• Naujan Escarpment (Nunavut)
• Niagara Escarpment (Ontario)
• Onondaga (geological formation) (Ontario)
• Pembina Escarpment (Manitoba)
• Scarborough Bluffs (Toronto, Ontario)
• Weston Escarpment (Nunavut)
• United States

• Allegheny Front (West Virginia-Maryland-Pennsylvania)
• Blue Ridge Escarpment (North Carolina–Virginia)
• Balcones Fault (Texas)
• Bergen Hill (New Jersey)
• Black River Escarpment (Wisconsin)
• Book Cliffs (Colorado–Utah)
• Caprock Escarpment (Texas)
• Catskill Escarpment (New York)
• The Chinese Wall (Montana)
• Cody Scarp (Florida)
• Devil's Slide (California)
• Helderberg Escarpment (New York)
• Hell's Half Acre (Wyoming)
• Knobstone Escarpment (Indiana)
• Lewiston Hill (Idaho-Washington)
• Long Point Escarpment (New York)
• Magnesian Escarpment (Wisconsin)
• Mescalero Ridge (New Mexico)
• Missouri Escarpment (North Dakota)
• Mogollon Rim (Arizona)
• Muldraugh Hill (Kentucky)
• Niagara Escarpment (New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois)
• Onondaga (geological formation) (New York)
• Pine Ridge (Nebraska–South Dakota)
• Pembina Escarpment (North Dakota)
• Portage Escarpment (Ohio)
• Potrero Hills in (California)
• Pottsville Escarpment (Kentucky–Tennessee)
• The Rimrocks (Montana)
• Sierra Nevada eastern slope (California)
• The Caribbean
• Bahamas Escarpment (Bahamas)

South America

• Brazil
• Great Escarpment, Brazil
• Serra do Mar (São Paulo)
• Serra da Mantiqueira (São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro)
• Chile
• West Andean Escarpment

Mars

• Amenthes Rupes
• Argyre Rupes
• Arimanes Rupes
• Avernus Rupes
• Bosporos Rupes
• Chalcoporos Rupēs
• Claritas Rupes
• Cydnus Rupēs
• Elysium Rupes
• Hephaestus Rupēs
• Hiddekel Rupes
• Icaria Rupes
• Morpheos Rupes
• Nilokeras Scopulus
• Nord Rupes
• Ogygis Rupes
• Olympus Rupes
• Olympia Rupēs
• Panchaia Rupēs
• Phison Rupes
• Phrixi Rupes
• Pityusa Rupes
• Promethei Rupes
• Rupes Tenuis
• Tartarus Rupes
• Thyles Rupes
• Ulyxis Rupes
• Utopia Rupēs

Mercury

• Acadia Rupes
• Adventure Rupes
• Altair Rupes
• Alvin Rupes
• Antares Rupes
• Arquipelago Rupes
• Astrolabe Rupes
• Beagle Rupes
• Belgica Rupes
• Blossom Rupes
• Calypso Rupes
• Carnegie Rupes
• Challenger Rupes
• Discovery Rupes
• Duyfken Rupes
• Eltanin Rupes
• Endeavour Rupes
• Enterprise Rupes
• Fram Rupes
• Gjöa Rupes
• Heemskerck Rupes
• Hero Rupes
• Kainan Rupes
• La Duaphine Rupes
• Mirni Rupes
• Nautilus Rupes
• Palmer Rupes
• Paramour Rupes
• Pelagia Rupes
• Pourquoi-Pas Rupes
• Resolution Rupes
• Santa María Rupes
• Terror Rupes
• Unity Rupes
• Vejas Rupes
• Victoria Rupes
• Vostok Rupes
• Zapiola Rupes
• Zarya Rupes
• Zeehaen Rupes

Venus

• Fornax Rupes
• Gabie Rupes
• Hestia Rupes
• Uorsar Rupes
• Ut Rupes
• Vaidilute Rupes
• Vesta Rupes

Natural satellites

Moon

• Rupes Altai
• Rupes Boris
• Rupes Cauchy
• Rupes Kelvin
• Rupes Liebig
• Rupes Mercator
• Rupes Recta
• Rupes Toscanelli

Miranda

• Argier Rupes
• Verona Rupes

Titania

• Rousillon Rupes

Asteroids

Lutetia

• Glana Rupes
• Rhenus Rupes

Vesta

• Agonium Rupes
• Matronalia Rupes
• Parentatio Rupes

References