Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Anatolian plateau in winter from air. The Anatolian plateau (Turkish: Anadolu Platosu) is a plateau that occupies most of Turkey's surface area. [1] [2] The elevation of the plateau ranges from 600 metres (2,000 ft) in the west to 1,200 metres (3,900 ft). [citation needed] Mount Erciyes near Kayseri, is the highest elevation at 3,917 metres ...
The Iranian plateau [1] or Persian plateau [2] [3] is a geological feature spanning parts of the Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. It makes up part of the Eurasian plate , and is wedged between the Arabian plate and the Indian plate .
The Coteau des Prairies [pronunciation?] is a plateau approximately 200 miles in length and 100 miles in width (320 by 160 km), rising from the prairie flatlands in eastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota, and northwestern Iowa in the United States.
The Golan Heights, [c] or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau at the southwest corner of Syria.It is bordered by the Yarmouk River in the south, the Sea of Galilee and Hula Valley in the west, the Anti-Lebanon mountains with Mount Hermon in the north and Wadi Raqqad in the east.
Its summit straddles the border between Syria and Lebanon [2] and, at 2,814 m (9,232 ft) above sea level, is the highest point in Syria. [3] On the top, in the United Nations buffer zone between Syrian and Israeli-occupied territories, is the highest permanently manned UN position in the world, known as "Hermon Hotel", [ 4 ] located at 2814 ...
Elevations average 350 metres at the edges of the plateau (at the above-mentioned water bodies), and rise to more than 500 metres at the centre, including the highest elevation point in the province at White Hill, at 533 metres. The plateau consists of numerous broad, gently rolling hills bisected with deep valleys and steep-walled river canyons.
The range, also known as the Odisha Highlands, runs in a north east to south west direction for about 382 km along the Odisha coast, covering 76,800 km 2 (29,700 sq mi). [ 1 ] The range rises abruptly and steeply in the east and slopes gently to a dissected plateau in the west running from north-east ( Mayurbhanj ) to south-west ( Malkangiri ).
Walden Ridge, looking northeast from Mt. Roosevelt. Walden Ridge (or Walden's Ridge) is a mountain ridge and escarpment located in Tennessee in the United States. It marks the eastern edge of the Cumberland Plateau and is generally considered part of it.