Scarp may refer to:

Landforms and geology

  • Cliff, a significant vertical, or near vertical, rock exposure
  • Escarpment, a steep slope or long cliff that occurs from erosion or faulting and separates two relatively level areas of differing elevations
  • Fault scarp, the topographic expression of faulting attributed to the displacement of the land surface by movement along faults

Other

  • Scarp, Scotland, an island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland
  • Scarp Forest, a location in South Africa
  • Scarp and counterscarp, the inner and outer sides of a ditch or moat used in fortifications
  • SS-9 Scarp, the NATO reporting name for the R-36 ICBM
  • Scarp, a 2013 book by the British writer Nick Papadimitriou

See also

  • Scarpe (disambiguation)