List of escarpments explained

See main article: Escarpment and Rupes. 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
  • 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 Småland-Sub-Cambrian escarpment^[1]
• Malta
  • Victoria Lines

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^[2]

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

See also: List of geological features on 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

Notes and References

1. Lidmar-Bergström . Karna . Karna Lidmar-Bergström . 1988 . Denudation surfaces of a shield area in southern Sweden . . 70 A . 4 . 337–350 . 10.2307/521267 . 521267 .
2. Wörner . Gerhard . Uhlig . Dieter . Kohler . Ingrid . Seyfried . Hartmut . Evolution of the West Andean Escarpment at 18°S (N. Chile) during the last 25 Ma: uplift, erosion and collapse through time . Tectonophysics . 15 February 2002 . 345 . 1 . 183–198 . 10.1016/S0040-1951(01)00212-8 . 2002Tectp.345..183W . free .