The eastern side slopes downwards gradually, while the western side ends in an abrupt manner | The capital lies just beyond the horizon |
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The hikers climbed around 25km | Bureau and Saudi researchers conducted a high-resolution LIDAR survey of Middle Jurassic outcrops of the Tuwaiq Mountain limestone along the Tuwaiq Mountain Escarpment near the city of , |
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3A view of the Tweig Tuwaiq Escarpment from the west | Many narrow valleys run along its sides, such as , and a group of towns lie on its central section, including the capital, |
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Many settlements have historically existed on either side of it as well, such as those of and Al-Washm | The Tweig escarpment is mentioned in 's 13th century geographical encyclopedia under the name "Al-'Aridh", though for the past few centuries that name has applied only to the central section of it, around Riyadh |
This study was a first step towards building a quantitative 3-D geologic model for use as an analog to the lower Arab-D reservoir.
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