Scarp may refer to:
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
- Fault scarp, the topographic expression of faulting attributed to the displacement of the land surface by movement along faults
Other
- Scarp, Scotland, an island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland
- Scarp Forest, a location in South Africa
- Scarp and counterscarp, the inner and outer sides of a ditch or moat used in fortifications
- SS-9 Scarp, the NATO reporting name for the R-36 ICBM
- Scarp, a 2013 book by the British writer Nick Papadimitriou
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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