Erosion Landform ( 04. Cuesta )

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• Cuesta derived from Spanish.

• Meaning is slope.

• It is a some kind of ridge.

• It formed by gently tilted.

• Sedimentary rock strata in a homoclinal structure.

• Cuestas have a steep slope.

• The rock layers are exposed on  edges.

• It called as an escarpment.

• Usually an erosion rock layer has gentle slope.

• The other side of the ridge called a dip slope.

• The slope of a homoclinal ridge dips in the same direction.

• Two well-known cuestas in Onondaga escarpment and theNiagara escarpment are ;

                            1.Western New York 

                            2.Southern Ontario

e.g.

• The Gulf Coastal Plain,Texas is cuestas in parallel the coast

• The Reynosa Plateau is the most coast-ward cuesta

• Jurassic chalk White Horse Hills, United Kingdom

• Swabian Alb cuestas in Jurassic rock