Scarp
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Scarp may refer to:
[edit] Landforms and geology
- Cliff, a significant vertical, or near vertical, rock exposure
- Escarpment, a steep slope or long cliff that occurs from erosion or faulting and separates two relatively level areas of differing elevations
- Scarp face, the surface of the steep slope of an escarpment
- Fault scarp, the topographic expression of faulting attributed to the displacement of the land surface by movement along faults
[edit] Other
- Scarp, Scotland, an island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland
- Counterscarp and Scarp, the outer and inner sides of a ditch used in fortifications
- SS-9 Scarp, the NATO reporting name for the R-36 ICBM
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