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| has gloss | eng: Zambezi Escarpment is a name used for the escarpments forming both sides of the rift valley or graben in which lie the middle Zambezi river and Lake Kariba. They are fault scarps, rising 500 to 600 m higher than the lake or river, running from the Batoka Gorge roughly 800 km to the lower Zambezi, and facing each other about 50 to 100 km apart, closer in the west and opening up in the east. |
| lexicalization | eng: Zambezi Escarpment |
| instance of | e/Escarpment |
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| has gloss | deu: Als Sambesi-Steilhang, auch Sambesi-Escarpment, werden die nur sehr schwer zu überwindenden Talhänge rechts und links des Sambesi zwischen Livingstone und Tete bezeichnet, besonders der Teil unter Mount Darwin in Simbabwe und der Teil um Siavonga und Maamba am Karibastausee in Sambia. |
| lexicalization | deu: Sambesi-Steilhang |
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