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A mountain that got tired of being pointy and chose the executive flat-top instead.
means A flat-topped hill or small plateau with steep sides, common in arid and semi-arid landscapes.
from Straight from Spanish 'mesa,' meaning 'table' — Spanish explorers in the American Southwest looked at these broad, level-topped landforms and saw furniture. The word traces back to Latin 'mensa,' also 'table,' which is why the geological and the dining sense share a flat surface and four steep legs of meaning.
- name origin
- Spanish for table, because someone was hungry
- how formed
- Hard caprock shields soft rock from erosion below
- shrinking fate
- Erodes into a butte, then a slim spire
- mars too
- Mesas sprawl across the Martian surface
- flat truth
- Tops are old riverbeds or lava flows, frozen flat
mesa verde — ancient ancestral puebloan cliff dwellings in colorado, occupied 600-1300 ce
grand mesa — largest flat-topped mountain in world, 10,000+ feet elevation in western colorado
black mesa — highest point in oklahoma at 4,973 feet, located in cimarron county