Plateau
Plateau (also plateau, plateau or plateau, in the Spanish-speaking world Meseta ) denotes a flat or slightly hilly landscape or region that is significantly higher than the ambient or parts thereof.
In coastal regions, people are already talking from heights of about 200 m above sea level on a plateau when the relief energy on the plateau remains low, so the height differences that arise are irrelevant.
In offshore mountainous countries, however, high levels can also be located in several kilometers above sea level. Such plateaus can extend over several hundred kilometers (such as the highlands of Tibet) and densely populated with suitable climate to about 3000 m altitude.
In the North German Plain, the name plate has opted for high plateaus, which are only a few to a few tens of meters higher than the surrounding countryside, enforced.
Often, a plateau is bounded by mountain range - see Central Asia and South America - or interrupted by lowering central areas and sedimentary basins.
The summit region of a ridge can be called a plateau or plateau when the term Table Mountain is not appropriate because of the moderate slope of the hillsides.
The following are some known high levels are given sorted by continent.
Plateaus in Europe
- Many high alpine areas, especially in the Limestone Alps and the Bohemian Massif, for example, Alto Piano della Predaia in the South Tyrolean mountains Mendel
- Bavarian and Bohemian Forest Bohemian-Moravian Heights and large parts of the Waldviertel
- Causse, a series of karst plateaus in 600-1250 m between the Massif Central and the Cevennes of Southern France
- Greina, a plateau in the Alps Mittelbündnerischen between the passes Greina and Diesrut and the Val Sumvitg
- Swabian Alb, Franconian Jura and Jura
- Dead Mountains, Plateau On (Dachstein massif) and high Schwab
Plateaus in Asia
- Tibetan Plateau (also Tibetan plateau )
- Plateau of Iran
- Partially funds Siberian mountains
- Deccan Plateau in India
- Less extensive plateaus: Bolaven Plateau in Laos
- Khorat Plateau in north-east Thailand
- Fuiloro Plateau in East Timor
Plateaus in Africa
- Highlands of Abyssinia in Ethiopia
- Bauchiplateau in Nigeria
- Huib Plateau in Namibia