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Satellite image of the Tibetan Plateau between the Himalayan mountains to the south and the Taklamakan Desert to the north. In geology and physical geography, a plateau (/ p l ə ˈ t oʊ, p l æ ˈ t oʊ, ˈ p l æ t oʊ /; French:; pl.: plateaus or plateaux), [1] [2] also called a high plain or a tableland, is an area of a highland consisting of flat terrain that is raised sharply above the ...
The Los Frailes ignimbrite plateau covers a heart-shaped [5] area of about 7,500 square kilometres (2,900 sq mi) [12] or 8,500 square kilometres (3,300 sq mi), which makes it one of the largest such plateaus in the world. [13] The plateau has an average elevation of 4,000 metres (13,000 ft) [12]-4,500 metres (14,800 ft). [14]
It is the world's highest and largest plateau above sea level, with an area of 2,500,000 square kilometres (970,000 sq mi). [13] With an average elevation exceeding 4,500 metres (14,800 ft) [ citation needed ] and being surrounded by imposing mountain ranges that harbor the world's two highest summits, Mount Everest and K2 , the Tibetan Plateau ...
These plates are often grouped with an adjacent principal plate on a tectonic plate world map. For purposes of this list, a microplate is any plate with an area less than 1 million km 2 . Some models identify more minor plates within current orogens (events that lead to a large structural deformation of Earth's lithosphere ) like the Apulian ...
Plateaus of the United States (4 C, 29 P) V. Plateaus of Venezuela (1 C, 3 P) Y. Plateaus of Yemen (1 P) This page was last edited on 3 January 2016, at 20:36 (UTC) ...
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Perhaps the most extensive of all the subaerial basaltic plateaus existed during the Paleogene [2] and possibly extended over 1,800,000 km 2 (690,000 sq mi) of the northern Atlantic Ocean region. This region, known as the Thulean Plateau , is generally believed to have been broken up by the foundering of the Earth's crust to form the present ...
Bathymetry of the Kerguelen Plateau Location of the plateau – the white spot is Kerguelen Island. The Kerguelen Plateau (/ ˈ k ɜːr ɡ əl ən /, / k ər ˈ ɡ eɪ l ən /), [1] also known as the Kerguelen–Heard Plateau, [2] is an oceanic plateau and large igneous province (LIP) located on the Antarctic Plate, in the southern Indian Ocean. [3]