The lakes lie in an almost level carboniferous limestone plateau.
Both islands are structurally part of the limestone plateau of Istria.
It lies in a valley in the eastern foothills of the Shumen limestone plateau.
The terrain basically consists of a limestone plateau, much of which lacks water owing to its karst topography.
Most of Qatar's area is flat, low-lying desert, which rises from the east to a central limestone plateau.
Her principal field site was a cluster of hamlets, containing several hundred households, on an arid limestone plateau on Java's south coast.
It is part of the limestone plateau called the Carso (Kras in Slovene; Karst in German) stretching from south-west Slovenia.
A limestone plateau comprises the highland areas of Argolís, while its lowland plain is alluvial and fertile, though too dry to cultivate without irrigation.
Petén is a low limestone plateau, varying in elevation between 500 and 700 feet (150 and 210 metres) above sea level at the base of the Yucatán Peninsula.
The region comprises a dry limestone plateau not much used for agriculture but well forested with the oaks (genus Quercus) that give their name to the region.
