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Definition of Plateaux

1. plateau [n] - See also: plateau

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plateaux

Literary usage of Plateaux

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Earth: A Descriptive History of the Phenomena of the Life of the Globe by Elisée Reclus (1873)
"plateaux, like the continents themselves, exhibit an organization more or less ... Thus the great plateaux of Central Asia, which may be looked upon as the ..."

2. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Archibald Geikie (1897)
"Nevertheless, partly within the area of the plateaux, but still more on the ... But where the structure of the plateaux has been laid bare along ranges of ..."

3. A Manual of the Geology of India: Chiefly Compiled from the Observations of by Geological Survey of India, Henry Benedict Medlicott, William Thomas Blanford (1893)
"The peculiarity of all the main dividing ranges of India is that they are merely plateaux, or portions of plateaux, which have escaped denudation. ..."

4. Earth Sculpture by James Geikie (1898)
"The leading features to be recognized are plains, plateaux, hills and mountains, valleys, basins, ... Elevated flat lands are usually termed plateaux. ..."

5. The native races of the Pacific states of North America by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1875)
"ANTIQUITIES OF THE CENTRAL plateaux. ANAHUAC—MONUMENTS OF PUEBLA — CHILA, ... and the adjoining plateaux, next claim our attention. ..."

6. Earth Sculpture; Or, The Origin of Land-forms: Or, The Origin of Landforms by James Geikie (1898)
"The leading features to be recognised are plains, plateaux, hills and mountains, valleys, basins, and other hollows and depressions of the surface, and, ..."

7. The Earth: A Descriptive History of the Phenomena of the Life of the Globe by Elisée Reclus (1873)
"plateaux, like the continents themselves, exhibit an organization more or less ... Thus the great plateaux of Central Asia, which may be looked upon as the ..."

8. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Archibald Geikie (1897)
"Nevertheless, partly within the area of the plateaux, but still more on the ... But where the structure of the plateaux has been laid bare along ranges of ..."

9. A Manual of the Geology of India: Chiefly Compiled from the Observations of by Geological Survey of India, Henry Benedict Medlicott, William Thomas Blanford (1893)
"The peculiarity of all the main dividing ranges of India is that they are merely plateaux, or portions of plateaux, which have escaped denudation. ..."

10. Earth Sculpture by James Geikie (1898)
"The leading features to be recognized are plains, plateaux, hills and mountains, valleys, basins, ... Elevated flat lands are usually termed plateaux. ..."

11. The native races of the Pacific states of North America by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1875)
"ANTIQUITIES OF THE CENTRAL plateaux. ANAHUAC—MONUMENTS OF PUEBLA — CHILA, ... and the adjoining plateaux, next claim our attention. ..."

12. Earth Sculpture; Or, The Origin of Land-forms: Or, The Origin of Landforms by James Geikie (1898)
"The leading features to be recognised are plains, plateaux, hills and mountains, valleys, basins, and other hollows and depressions of the surface, and, ..."

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