Table Mountain
A Table Mountain , and Mesa called ( Spanish mesa = "table"), is a mountain with a broad summit level, usually a result flat overlapping sedimentary rocks is. Its mountain slopes are often pronounced as steep slopes .
Table mountains usually have a longitudinally oval shape, i.e. the plateau has a smaller extent in one direction. Typical table mountains can be found, for example, in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains as well as in the Franconian and Swabian Alb , where they are the result of layers ( table Jura ).
Another type are the table mountains, the summit corridor of which consists of a lava blanket . Here the mountain shape is less a result of the shallow sedimentation , but rather the hardness of the rock.
There are also table volcanoes , which were formed under glaciers and also have the typical shape of a table mountain.
List of known table mountains
- Ethiopia
- the ambas
- Australia
- Germany
- France
- Greenland
- India (mountain forts on numerous table mountains)
- Chittorgarh Fort
- Jodhpur Fort
- Gwalior Fort
- Kalinjar Fort
- Ireland
- Italy
- Canada
- Cuba
- Namibia
- Poland
- Szczeliniec Wielki ( Big Haystacks ), Heuscheuergebirge
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Spain
- Peña Hueva , Alcarria Plateau
- Puig de Randa (Mallorca)
- South Africa
- Suriname
- Czech Republic
- Děčínský Sněžník ( High Snow Mountain ), Elbe Sandstone Mountains
- Úhošť ( Burberg ), Duppau Mountains
- Hungary
- Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil
- the tepuis
- United States
- Monument Valley , Utah
- Shoreline Butte in Death Valley California