GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -cuesta, (Spanish: “slope”, ) also called Homoclinal Ridge, physical feature that has a steep cliff or escarpment on one side and a gentle dip or back slope on the other.

Detailed explanation-2: -In general usage, a cuesta is a hill or ridge with a gentle slope (backslope) on one side, and a steep slope (frontslope) on the other. The word is from Spanish: “flank or slope of a hill; hill, mount, sloping ground".

Detailed explanation-3: -Scarp slope is steep. 2.4. Farming takes place in the cuesta valleys situated between the ridges, as the flat surface is. covered in fertile soil.

Detailed explanation-4: -Homoclinal ridges (Cotton, 1948) are an intermediate form encompassing a range of dip slopes from, say, 40° to perhaps 4 or 5°. Mesas are essentially flat and are scarp-bounded on all sides. Cuestas then loosely embrace those one-scarp plains where the dips lie between, say, 4–5° and 1/2°.

Detailed explanation-5: -The dip slope lies at or less than the angle of dip of the beds while the scarp slope maintains a steep slope by undermining and mass wasting due to rapid weathering of a less resistant stratum below.