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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 ...
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 ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Plateaus of the Central African Republic (1 P) Plateaus of Chile (3 C, 5 P)
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Dissected plateaus (2 C, 6 P) E. Extraterrestrial plateaus (14 P) H. Highlands (20 C, 114 P) I.
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Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Plateaus" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
The World Health Organization sounded the alarm this week about the health implications of too much salt, stating in a report that annually 1.9 million deaths are attributable to high sodium ...
There are 184 oceanic plateaus in the world, covering an area of 18,486,600 km 2 (7,137,700 sq mi) or about 5.11% of the oceans. [2] The South Pacific region around Australia and New Zealand contains the greatest number of oceanic plateaus (see map).