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A list of escarpments follows below.

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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

Shaded and colored image from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission—shows an elevation model of New Zealand's Alpine Fault running about 500 km (300 mi) long. The escarpment is flanked by a chain of hills squeezed between the fault and the mountains of New Zealand's Southern Alps. Northeast is towards the top.

Australia
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
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

The Sierra Escarpment in California

At the Florida Escarpment, seen in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the sea bed drops precipitously from less than 300 to 3,000 m (1,000 to 10,000 ft) over a short distance.

- 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

Perspective view of the Martian polar ice cap and Rupes Tenuis with Abalos Mensa on the left of the picture.

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

Discovery Rupes

Venus

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

Natural satellites

Moon

Oblique view of Rupes Recta (left)

Miranda

Argier Rupes
Verona Rupes

Titania

Rousillon Rupes

Asteroids

Lutetia

Glana Rupes
Rhenus Rupes

Vesta

Agonium Rupes
Matronalia Rupes
Parentatio Rupes

References

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

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