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The Acantilados de Miraflores are coastal cliffs along the Pacific shoreline of Lima, Peru. They rise above parts of the Miraflores district and the beaches and roadways of the Costa Verde, creating a visible boundary between the urban plateau and the coast. The cliffs consist largely of sedimentary...

The Scarborough Bluffs are a chain of sedimentary cliffs on the Lake Ontario shoreline in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Their layers were shaped by glacial and postglacial processes, creating a long sequence of bluffs, beaches, and shoreline habitats. Several public parks, including Bluffer's Park, prov...

Big Muddy Badlands is an eroded valley in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, historically used as a hideout by outlaws including Butch Cassidy in the late 19th century and notable for its hoodoos and Castle Butte landmark.

The Paris Basin is a large geological sedimentary basin in northern France, covering approximately 100,000 square kilometers. Its concentric rock formations, with progressively older strata exposed toward the center, have created distinct agricultural regions including the fertile Champagne chalk pl...

Calvert Cliffs are prominent sedimentary cliffs along the western shore of Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, United States. The exposed layers were deposited during the Miocene and contain a large record of marine fossils, including remains of sharks, whales, rays, and other animals. Calvert Cliffs State...

Boulby Cliffs are coastal cliffs on the North Yorkshire coast of England, near Boulby and Staithes. They rise to roughly 200 metres and expose Jurassic sedimentary rocks; the cliffs are associated with the Boulby area’s long history of mineral extraction, including the potash mine near the coast. Th...

The Gulf Coastal Plain is a low-relief physiographic region bordering the Gulf of Mexico from southern Texas across the Gulf states to Florida. It consists largely of unconsolidated marine and river sediments and includes beaches, barrier islands, estuaries, wetlands, and inland flatlands. The regio...

The Atlantic Coastal Plain is a low-lying physiographic region along the eastern United States, extending from southern Florida northward to Long Island and New York. It consists largely of seaward-dipping and generally unconsolidated layers of sand, gravel, silt, clay, and marl deposited from the M...

Cannonball River Badlands is a dissected badland landscape in south-central North Dakota associated with the Cannonball River. Erosion exposes sedimentary formations and produces gullies, steep slopes, and isolated landforms typical of western North Dakota. The area is also known for spherical stone...

The Cliffs of the Neuse are steep riverbank formations along the Neuse River in Wayne County, North Carolina, within Cliffs of the Neuse State Park. The exposed faces are made of layered sedimentary material and rise sharply above the river, with the commonly cited vertical relief reaching about 90...

The Pembina Escarpment is a geological scarp that rises above the Red River Valley in northeastern North Dakota and southern Manitoba ([North Dakota Geological Survey](https://www.dmr.nd.gov/dmr/ndgs/pembina-escarpment)). The escarpment is roughly 300 to 400 feet high in the border region and expose...

The Manitoba Escarpment is a broad geological cuesta, meaning an asymmetric ridge with a steep slope on one side and a gentler dip slope on the other, in the Prairie region of Canada. It marks the transition from the lower Manitoba lowlands, including the Red River Valley, to higher upland surfaces...