Mesa

Cockburn Range, Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia

Har Qatum, a mesa located on the southern edge of Makhtesh Ramon, Israel

Mount Conner, a mesa located in Northern Territory, Australia

Amadiya, Iraq, a city in its entirety built on a mesa

Isolated, flat-topped elevation, ridge or hill, which is bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding plain.

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Butte

Qaxaç Qalası or Kachaghakaberd fortress, Khojali District, Azerbaijan

Pawnee Buttes, Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado

In geomorphology, a butte is an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; buttes are smaller landforms than mesas, plateaus, and tablelands.

Tepui

The plateau of Mount Roraima – the peculiar rock formation is caused by erosion.

View of the Venezuelan Amazon from the top of a tepui

View of Kukenan tepui from top of Mt. Roraima

Devil's Canyon in the Canaima National Park

A tepui, or tepuy , is a table-top mountain or mesa found in South America, especially in Venezuela and western Guyana.

Caprock

Harder or more resistant rock type overlying a weaker or less resistant rock type.

Horseshoe Falls, part of the Niagara Escarpment

Sealing of a carbonate platform (reservoir rock) by shales (caprock). The erosion of the shale renders the structure of the trap visible.

Common caprock locations are escarpments, mesa formations, and salt domes.

Table (landform)

Butte, flank of a mountain, or mountain, that has a flat top.

Mesa

Masada

A caldarium (hot room) in northern Roman-style public bath (#35 on plan)

Funeral to the human remains unearthed at Masada, 1969

Set of three Masada commemorative stamps, issued by Israel in 1965

The Northern Palace's lower terrace (#39 on plan)

Stepped pool interpreted by Yadin as a Herodian swimming pool, possibly used as a public ritual immersion bath (mikveh) by the rebels (#17 on plan)<ref name="OConnor">{{cite book |title=The Holy Land: An Oxford Archaeological Guide from Earliest Times to 1700 |series=Oxford Archaeological Guides |author=Jerome Murphy-O'Connor |year=2008 |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=385 |isbn=978-0-19-923666-4 |quote=... a small, deep, stepped pool with a triangular balcony. The niches for clothes led to its identification as a swimming pool. There are those who prefer to think of it as a ritual bath (mikveh); it may well have been used as such by the Zealots. |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=m3Yy9FDcT8gC&q=%22began+in+the+north+in+1537+and+continued+down+the+east+and+west+sides%22&pg=PT48 |access-date=12 August 2016 }}</ref><ref name="Yadin">{{cite book |title=Masada |authors=Mikha Livne and Ze'ev Meshel, introduction by Yigael Yadin, maps and pictures by the Masada Archaeological Expedition |year=1965 |location=Jerusalem |publisher=Direction des parcs nationaux |quote=Piscine hérodienne (Herodian swimming pool) |language=fr }}</ref>

Aerial view showing Masada and the Snake Path from the northeast

Masada's western Byzantine gate (#23 on plan)

Roman siege camp F and section of the Roman circumvallation wall

Cable car (Masada cableway) heading down from Masada

Masada (מצדה metsada, "fortress") is an ancient fortification in the Southern District of Israel situated on top of an isolated rock plateau, akin to a mesa.

Colorado

State in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

Ruins of Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park. Photo by Gustaf Nordenskiöld, 1891

Great Kiva at Chimney Rock in the San Juan Mountains of Southwestern Colorado. It is said to have been built by the Ancient Pueblo peoples.

The Spanish discovering the Colorado River, namesake of the state, in 1540, by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau. García López de Cárdenas can be seen overlooking the Grand Canyon.

Map of the Mexican Cession, with the white representing the territory the United States received from Mexico (plus land ceded to the Republic of Texas) after the Mexican–American War. Well over half of Colorado was received during this treaty.

The territories of New Mexico, Utah, Kansas, and Nebraska before the creation of the Territory of Colorado

Mount of the Holy Cross, photographed by William Henry Jackson in 1874

The Georgetown Loop of the Colorado Central Railroad as photographed by William Henry Jackson in 1899

Three 10th Mountain Division skitroopers above Camp Hale in February 1944.

The arid high plains in Southeastern Colorado

Tenmile Range and Dillon Reservoir near Breckenridge

Grays Peak at 4352 m is the highest point on the Continental Divide in North America

The high desert lands that make up the San Luis Valley in Southern Colorado

Maroon Bells, at 14163 ft, is part of White River National Forest and a tourist destination

The Colorado National Monument near Grand Junction is made up of high desert canyons and sandstone rock formations

Köppen climate types of Colorado, using 1991-2020 climate normals.

Breckenridge naturalist Edwin Carter with a mounted gray wolf killed in the Colorado Rockies, ca. 1890–1900.

An enlargeable map of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado

An enlargeable map of the 17 core-based statistical areas of Colorado

Denver Energy Center lies in the Denver financial district along 17th Street, known as the Wall Street of the West

The Colorado Rockies baseball club at Coors Field

Empower Field at Mile High in Denver, home field of the Denver Broncos and the Denver Outlaws

Ball Arena, home of the Denver Nuggets, the Colorado Avalanche, and the Colorado Mammoth

Dick's Sporting Goods Park, home of the Colorado Rapids

The main terminal of Denver International Airport evokes the peaks of the Front Range.

The westbound and eastbound California Zephyrs meet in the Glenwood Canyon.

The Southern Ute Tribal Administration Building

The Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Office Complex

Lowry Pueblo in Canyons of the Ancients National Monument

Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve

Spruce Tree House in Mesa Verde National Park

Colorado is noted for its vivid landscape of mountains, forests, high plains, mesas, canyons, plateaus, rivers, and desert lands.

Plateau

Area of a highland consisting of flat terrain that is raised sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side.

The Pajarito Plateau in New Mexico is an example of a volcanic plateau.

Road to the ALMA’s Operations Support Facility and then on further to the Chajnantor Plateau at 5000 meters above sea level.

A tepui, or tepuy , is a table-top mountain or mesa found in the Guiana Highlands of South America, especially in Venezuela and western Guyana.

Amedi

Town in the Duhok Governorate of Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

The Badinan Gate, and the entrance to the Citadel

It is built on a mesa in the broader Great Zab river valley.

New Mexico

State in the Southwestern United States.

Wheeler Peak in the Sangre de Cristo Range

Köppen climate types of New Mexico, using 1991-2020 climate normals.

Greater roadrunner (the state bird of New Mexico)

Ancestral Pueblo territory shown in pink over New Mexico

Statue of Popé, leader of the Pueblo Revolt. The statue, entitled Po'pay, is among two statues depicting New Mexicans at the United States Capitol National Statuary Hall Collection, the other being Dennis Chávez.

Territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo México when it belonged to Mexico in 1824

"The indigenous people of northern New Mexico" by Balduin Möllhausen, 1861.

A homesteader and his children at the New Mexico Fair in Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

San Miguel Chapel, built in 1610 in Santa Fe, is the oldest church structure in the continental U.S.

New Mexico state quarter, circulated in April 2008

An F-22 Raptor flown by the 49th Fighter Wing at Holloman AFB

Albuquerque Studios, built in 2007 for the rising demand of film production in the state

In this photo, the Mexico–United States border divides Sunland Park and the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

The New Mexico Rail Runner Express is a commuter operation that runs along the Central Rio Grande Valley.

Spaceport America terminal, The Gateway.

The New Mexico Public Education Department is in Santa Fe.

Map of public New Mexico colleges and universities. New Mexico Higher Education Department.

Symbols of the Southwest: a string of dried chile pepper pods (a ristra) and a bleached white cow's skull hang in a market near Santa Fe

Interior of the Crosby Theater at the Santa Fe Opera, viewed from the mezzanine

Luminarias in the old mission church, Jemez State Monument

Zimmerman Library at The University of New Mexico

Zuhl Library at New Mexico State University

Walkway outside Golden Library at Eastern New Mexico University

Donnelly Library at New Mexico Highlands University

Despite its popular depiction as mostly arid desert, New Mexico has one of the most diverse landscapes of any U.S. state, ranging from wide, auburn-colored deserts and verdant grasslands, to broken mesas and high, snow-capped peaks.

Anderson Mesa

Examples of written Navajo on public signs. Clockwise from top left: Student Services Building, Diné College; cougar exhibit, Navajo Nation Zoo; shopping center near Navajo, New Mexico; notice of reserved parking, Window Rock

Anderson Mesa (Navajo: Hosh Dikʼání ) is approximately five mesas long, located 20 miles southeast of Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, east of Lake Mary and north of Mormon Lake, in Coconino County.