Great Escarpment, plateau edge of southern Africa that separates the region’s highland interior plateau from the fairly narrow coastal strip. The Great Escarpment has generally been formed by the headwater erosion of rivers of the coastal plain.Click to see full answer. Likewise, why is the Great Escarpment important?The Great Escarpment is rich in habitat, and people have found it to be an ideal place for fishing. There are many marine species found along the coasts here, such as the Rock lobster, anchovy, and pilchard. what causes an escarpment? Escarpments are formed by one of two processes: erosion and faulting. Erosion creates an escarpment by wearing away rock through wind or water. The other process by which escarpments are formed is faulting. Faulting is movement of the Earths top layer, or crust, along a crack called a fault. Likewise, people ask, how long is the Great Escarpment? The southern African Great Escarpment is a 5,000 km-long, semi-continuous mountain range system comprised of most of southern Africa’s principal geological suites, in varying climatic conditions (White 1983; Moore and Blenkinsop 2006), but with consistent geomorphology as a plateau margin (Van Zinderen Bakker 1983).What is the highest stretch of the Great escarpment known as?The portion of the Great Escarpment shown in red is officially known as the Drakensberg, although most South Africans think of the Drakensberg as only that portion of the Escarpment that forms the border between KwaZulu-Natal and Lesotho. Here the Escarpment rises to its greatest height of over 3,000 metres (9,800 ft).

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