Table land

As a plateau in which it is Geography a horizontally constructed from layered, solid rock plains or an analog plateau ( plateau landscape ), respectively. With vast plains of uniform bedrock talking geomorphology also multilayer sheet or layer tableland, horizontal at peak formations layering of mesas . The latter are mostly leftover remains of former large layer tables.

Table countries can u. a. have the following causes:

• Tectonic uplift of an older embankment level of large rivers . Depending on the rock hardness, their erosion can lead to land terraces or to extensive stratified regions with steep slopes in between, and later to table and witness mountains
• Uniform sedimentation over long periods of time in an extensive depression - see also sediment basins
• Expansion of basalt or lava layers in previously volcanically active regions ( effusion plaque )

See also

• Brazilian table , pampas
• Russian table

literature

• André Cailleux : The Unknown Planet. Anatomy of the Earth ( Kindler's University Library ). Kindler Verlag, Munich 1968.
• Gustav Fochler-Hauke : Levels and leveling . In the S. (Ed.): Das Fischer-Lexikon, Volume 14: Allgemeine Geographie . New edition Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt / M. 1980, ISBN 3-596-40014-7 (EA Frankfurt / M. 1959).
• Erich Schwegler et al .: Geology in brief. 3rd edition. Hirt, Kiel 1969.