| 词汇 | cuesta |
| 释义 | cuesta noun[ C ] uk /ˈkwes.tə/ us /ˈkwes.tə/ geology, environment specialized a ridge(= high, narrow edge along a mountain) with a gentle slope on one side and a steep slope on the other: 鬣丘，单面山，单斜脊 The Niagara escarpment is a cuesta in southern Ontario.尼亚加拉峭崖是位于南安大略的一座单面山。 Vyacheslav Argenberg/Moment/Getty Images /GettyImages I had spectacular views cycling along the Cuesta de Miranda. El Morro is technically a cuesta, a long sloping mesa terminating in an abrupt bluff. The northwest-facing escarpment of the Jurassic chalk White Horse Hills is a UK example of a cuesta. Michigan's cuestas are mostly buried by thick deposits of glacial drift. Geography: hills & mountains acclivity alpine tundra craggy esker highlands hillock mesa mid-ocean ridge motte Mount Kilimanjaro Mount Rainier pike precipitous scarp slope spur steep the Adirondack Mountains the Alaska Range the Alps Examples of cuestacuesta The plot is located on the upper part of a low (< 250 m) dissected cuesta spur in a pericoastal range of low hills. The alternating resistant rhyolite and easily eroded basalts produce a series of parallel sharp cuesta ridges separated by savanna plains. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Eroded monoclines leave steeply tilted resistant rock called a hogback and the less steep version is a cuesta. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Both pediment flatirons and talus flatirons are associated with the scarps of a cuesta, mesa, or butte and with their tips directed towards the scarp. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Cuesta, however, was reluctant to agree, and was only persuaded to advance on the following day. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The cuesta region contains coal, black shale and some oil shales. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In time, the river cut a gorge through the north facing cliff, or cuesta. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Cuesta was refused supplies and reinforcements until local authorities could review the appointments he had made to the army. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The escarpment cuts through the dipping strata that comprises the cuesta. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The escarpment's channels provided a route for drainage of ice-marginal meltwater; the channel system was eroded into the cuesta, and along its exposed eastern facing. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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