The term ‘cliff’ applies especially to a rock face which extends along a coastline. An escarpment is a steep cliff or slope formed by a fault or by erosion. An escarpment is also called a scarp. Fault scarps are formed by a fault, which is a fracture or break in the earth’s crust...
Based on their fresh morphology, lunar lobate scarps are thought to be some of the youngest landforms on the Moon. Age estimates using crater degradation measurements on craters cut or supposed by the scarps revealed that such lobate scarps formed in the last 700 Ma. Modern crater size-...
(2020). The Goliath headwall domain, starting at a water depth of ~ 400 m, comprises three prominent head scarps, up to ~ 80 m high that formed in multiple events. The slide complex extends over an area of 346 km2, with an estimated volume of ~ 2.5 km3 of transported ...
journal Science, researchers explained how they used data about the moon's gravity to get a look at the satellite's subsurface structure. They then used that information to model the impact that formed the crater to determine how the rings were formed. [The Greatest Moon Crashes of All Time...
The caldera shows an asymmetric inner geometry with sub-vertical walls in the NW quadrant and steep scarps composed of inward tilted blocks in the southern half. The presence of preserved polished surfaces on the lower part of the sub-vertical scarp indicates that it corresponds to the caldera ...
Deformation is accommodated on two fault sets including west-northwest striking frontal thrust faults and shorter north to northeast striking faults. The frontal thrust fault system is active with late Quaternary scarps at the base of the range front. The fault-cored Manastash anticline terminates to...