Definitions for "Cuesta"
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Hogback, Escarpment, Butte, Cliff, Scarp, Pediment, Headwall, Inselberg, Mesa , Undercutting, Bajada, Canyon, Bench, Dip slope, Arête, Bluff, Rockfall, Col, Couloir, Ridge, U-shaped valley, Badlands, Fault scarp, Talus, Valley, Scree, Rift valley, Bunny slope, Corrie, Submarine canyon, Sloping, Continental rise, Crest, Gorge, Glen, Spur, Slip face, Horn, Declivity, Crag, Cirque, Shield volcano, Plateau, Monadnock, Mountain, Plain, Peneplain, Pass, Landform, Fall
A sloping plain, esp. one with the upper end at the crest of a cliff; a hill or ridge with one face steep and the opposite face gently sloping.
An asymmetrical ridge with one steep and one gentle face formed where gently dipping beds of erosion-resistant rocks are undercut by erosion of a weaker bed underneath.
a ridge composed of gently tipped rock strata with a long, gradual slope on one side and a relative steep scarp or cliff on the other.
An asymmetric hill or ridge with a gentle slope on one side and a steep outcrop slope on the other.
An elongate ridge formed on the tilted and eroded edges of gently dipping strata.
Slope or small hill.
a hill or ridge, with a steep face on one side, and a gentle slope on the other
an upland belt with a short, steep descent, or escarpment, on one side and a long, gentle slope on the other
a ridge which has a steep escarpment on one side and a long gentle slope on the other
a tilted, low-angle dipping sequence of resistant sedimentary rocks, which stand out in the landscape as a non-eroded ridge
A hill or ridge with a gentle slope on one side and a steep slope on the other; formed by uplifted rock outcrop consisting of strata having different restances to erosion. (Bates and Jackson 1980.)
An asymmetrical landform associated with tectonic tilting of sedimentary rock; includes a short steep slope generated as a fault escarpment and a longer gentler slope corresponding to the dip of the original bedrock surface after tilting (dipslope)
Cuesta is a geological term, used to describe the ridges formed by gently tilted hard rock layers. Every cuesta has a steep slope, where the rock layers are exposed on their edges, called an escarpment or, if more severe, a cliff. Usually an erosion-resistant rock layer also has a more gentle slope on the other side of the ridge called a 'dip slope'.