The track twisted up and across a plateau of rock roses filled with birds.
IT was not yet noon, but the thermometer in our rented sport utility vehicle showed it was 102 degrees outside when my friend Georgia and I arrived at the top of First Mesa, a forbidding-looking plateau of rock in the northeastern Arizona desert and a thriving traditional center of Hopi Indian life.
There, to the left of the Newry road on a plateau of rock and green grass, lay the broken wire-mesh anti-mortar screen which once guarded the fortress where British troops – so often attacked by the IRA from Dundalk in the Republic – guarded the border.
These diffused instabilities are related to the predisponding geological setting of Malta Island, i.e. the over-position of grained limestone on plastic clay deposits, that induces lateral spreading phenomena associated to falls and topples of different-size rock blocks and is responsible for a typical landscape with stable plateau of stiff rocks bordered by unstable cliff slopes.
The eastern plateau forelands, located just east of the Rift highlands, constitute a vast plateau of ancient rocks gently sloping to the coastal plain.
Located on St. Andrews Bay of the North Sea 13 miles (20 km) southeast of Dundee, it occupies a plateau of sandstone rock about 50 feet (15 metres) in elevation, which breaks off to the north in precipitous cliffs.
The southern half of the country is dominated by the rugged Maya Mountains, a plateau of igneous rock cut by erosion into hills and valleys that stretch in a southwesterly to northeasterly direction.
There were a few tiny greyish plants on a gently convex plateau of jagged loose rocks.
It was all-out playing; the musicians reached a plateau of dense, loud rocking -- they didn't let the music breathe and didn't want to -- and kept it up for about five full, transfixing minutes.
Exmoor is a dissected plateau of Devonian sedimentary rock, rising to 517 m at Dunkery Beacon.
