Grain by grain, the vast foundations, the beetling escarpments, the high domes in air are crumbled away and drifted into the valleys. |
Flat alluvial fields rise up from the river to meet undulating slopes and escarpments that have been in cultivation since the sixteenth century. |
The eroded surfaces are now masked as damp woods which have invaded impluvia, gorges and escarpments. |
The lowland rainforest is abruptly fractured by the Pakaraima Mountains, an area dominated by bold escarpments and lush, forested valleys. |
In some cases, escarpments occur where there is no obvious lithologic or tectonic origin. |
Many other streams and waterfalls run through this area's rocky escarpments and narrow valleys. |