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cuesta

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Reached via Torremuelle station and a short walk to the coastline, the small cove is framed by rocky cliffs and greenery rather than rows of restaurants and sun loungers.

— Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
Visit Deception Pass, Washington’s most popular state park, for its dramatic cliffs, turquoise waters, and iconic bridge.

— Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2026

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Built around a towering sandstone escarpment that rises through the centre of the property, surrounded by a deliciously cold pool, the architecture was conceived in careful negotiation with the landscape.

— Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Vogue, 3 July 2026
The tents are perched on top of escarpment with views of the TK below.

— Judy Koutsky, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026

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The house was in a striking location, perched on a bluff in Baiting Hollow overlooking Long Island Sound.

— Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 11 July 2026
With 1,700 feet of shoreline on both Lake Leelanau and Lake Michigan, the clay bluff hosts a rare ecosystem of nesting eagles and one of Leelanau’s most prolific wildflower sites.

— Stacy Conde, Midwest Living, 9 July 2026

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On July 4, North Dakota gained the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library atop a butte in Medora.

— CNT Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 July 2026
Situated on a butte at the gateway to the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, the 96,000-sq-ft (8,918-sq-m) library and museum structure practically blends into the rugged landscape.

— Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 7 July 2026

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In 1876, Arthur Lakes, a professor at Jarvis Hall college, discovered several dinosaur fossils on the west side of a hogback west of Denver, including the first fossils to be called stegosaurus.

— Alia Beard Rau, USA Today, 10 June 2026
Views to the east take in Red Rocks Park, the Dakota Ridge hogback, Green Mountain and downtown Denver in the distance.

— John Meyer, Denver Post, 26 May 2026

Definition of hogback

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The team used high-resolution topographic data from satellites, aircraft and drones to detect fault scarps, narrow ridges formed when the ground shifts during an earthquake, that were previously hidden under dense forest and glacial deposits.

— Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Surrounding that is the environmental protective garment (EPG), the heavy, visible, outer covering of the suit that protects the astronauts from cuts and punctures on a lunar terrain that bristles with jagged rocks and scarps.

— Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024

Definition of scarp

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Sun exposure can darken new scars permanently and slow their healing, so Min recommended keeping them covered as much as possible.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 13 July 2026
Due to flooding risks heightened by the Claremont Fire’s burn scar, the National Weather Service is closely monitoring conditions of the Freestone Creek Basin near the Military Reserve.

— Hali Smith, Idaho Statesman, 13 July 2026

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