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Escarpment vs Crag - What's the difference?

escarpment | crag | Related terms |

As nouns the difference between escarpment and crag

is that escarpment is 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 while crag is a rocky outcrop.

escarpment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • crag

    English

    (wikipedia crag)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rocky outcrop.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • From crag' to ' crag the signal flew.
  • (geology) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.

    • Derived terms

    * cragfast * craggy * cragsman

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