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English translation: drop, projection, or fault-line scarp

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French term or phrase:	ressaut
English translation:	drop, projection, or fault-line scarp
Entered by:	Drmanu49

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11:24 Aug 19, 2009

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Social Sciences - Geography

French term or phrase: ressaut

Part of a hiking guide...

Poursuivre rive droite le long des meandres; juste après un ressaut quitter la piste dans un zigzag.

Obliquer à gauche d’un ruisseau jusqu’à un ressaut herbeux.

Passer le ressaut d’une jolie cascade et rejoindre rive droite la clairière…

Mary Davis KudoZ activity Questions: 123 (none open) (11 closed without grading) Answers: 61
Local time: 13:33

drop, projection, or fault-line scarp

Explanation:
Can be several things but this is likely

fault-line scarp ( ′fölt′līn ′skärp ) ( geology ) A cliff produced when a soft rock erodes against hard rock at a.
www.answers.com/topic/fault-line-scarp

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Drmanu49
Local time: 13:33

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Summary of answers provided

4 +1

drop, projection, or fault-line scarp

Drmanu49

embankment

Euqinimod

ledge/lip/scarcement/(hydraulic) jump

mimi 254

Projection/abrupt fall/dip

Gad Kohenov

bumps/steep slopes/convexo-concave

Yasutomo Kanazawa

Discussion entries: 4

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3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

drop, projection, or fault-line scarp

Drmanu49
Local time: 13:33
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

French
PRO pts in category: 24

10 mins confidence:

bumps/steep slopes/convexo-concave

Explanation:
Like Drumanu 49 stated, the word could mean a lot of things, but I would suggest the above.

Yasutomo Kanazawa
Local time: 20:33
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Japanese

17 mins confidence:

Projection/abrupt fall/dip

Explanation:
Possibilities I would consider.

Gad Kohenov
Local time: 14:33
Works in field
Native speaker of:

French,

Hebrew

22 mins confidence:

ledge/lip/scarcement/(hydraulic) jump

Explanation:
Termium propose the following def:

scarcement = offset or retreat in the thickness of a wall or bank of earth

lip = a projecting or overhanging edge, rim or margin such as a rock on a mountainside
"ressaut d'une cascade"

hydraulic jump = sudden rise in level of surface of a stream

mimi 254
Local time: 12:33
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

French
PRO pts in category: 4

27 mins confidence:

embankment

Explanation:
May be that.

Euqinimod
Local time: 13:33
Works in field
Native speaker of:

French

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