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Recent Examples of tablelandThe tableland was formed by volcanic eruptions about 700,000 years ago, according to the Bishop Chamber of Commerce and Information Center.—Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 11 Mar. 2025 It's located on the Cumberland Plateau — a 450-mile tableland that covers much of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, with soaring sandstone walls, large boulders, and dramatic overhangs.—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2023 Schuerman Mountain rises in west Sedona, a high tableland that offers commanding views of gaudier formations.—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2021 Their concerns center on Black Mesa, a tableland that rises north of the Hopi villages and that lies partly in the Navajo Reservation and partly in the Hopi Reservation.—Ian James, AZCentral.com, 7 Dec. 2020 Lubbock, with its elevation reaching to some 3,400 feet, sits high atop caprock tableland that tapers slowly to the southeast toward Fort Worth and Dallas.—Mary Ann Anderson, Twin Cities, 20 July 2019 Alexandra and Yongden decided to walk knee-deep into the tableland ahead of them.—Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019
That’s not the case here, the world’s largest inland delta; in fact, the water level here is at its highest now during the supposedly dry season, mostly because the rainfall that deluges Angola’s highlands in summer takes so long to meander down to pool on the plains.
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Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
8 May 2025
In this hypnotic odyssey, the ancient monasteries of Armenia’s highlands bear traces of epochs past.
The first will remain in effect for the northern, southern and east slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and the Johnson and Bartlett mesas, including Raton Pass, through Wednesday morning at 8 a.m. local time.
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Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
26 Nov. 2024
That initial drive was merely the opening act for the hike-able mesas, canyons, and sky-high sandstone beyond the visitor center gates.
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Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
17 May 2025
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