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, broken by a fault. Cumberland Plateau , Tennessee .]] Escarpments are also frequently formed by Faults . These are called Fault Scarp s. In some cases land may be lifted to an elevation above the surrounding area by a thrust fault, or the reverse with a normal fault. A strike-slip fault may bring a piece of high ground adjacent to an area of lower ground. The latter is common in California along the San Andreas Fault and the many other strike-slip faults in the area. In England escarpments are found in a diagonal line across the country from the Yorkshire coast on the North Sea to the Hampshire coast on the English Channel . There the features of an escarpment include the scarp slope (the leading edge); the '''dip slope''', Dry Valleys , Coombe s (both found in Chalk Downland ), and clay vales occur on the side away from the scarp. There are escarpments on other planets besides Earth . They are believed to be created when the Crust Contracts ; as a result of cooling. More loosely the term is used to describe the zone between coastal lowlands and continental Plateau which have a marked change in altitude. SIGNIFICANT ESCARPMENTS
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