mesa
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Now she breeds her own yaks on 120 acres of pasture, foothills and mesa tops high in bucolic Ridgway, about 290 miles west of Denver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Under the veil of the Manhattan Project, this remote mesa became the site of a profound scientific pivot that ended a world war and ushered in the nuclear age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The area around the mesa is rugged, quiet and vast, and water has to be hauled in.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
Later, higher-resolution photographs with fewer shadows showed a pretty plain mesa.
From Scientific American ● May 17, 2023
Yes, I did not get to the mesa with the tunnel-like opening, but the boulder beside me appears worth investigating.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
Washington, Utah, located just southwest of Zion National Park, is surrounded by cinematic mesas and has long been a hub for exploring the natural wonders of the American west.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025
Foothills and valleys, groves and canyons, even the mesas, plateaus and plains of the Sierra and the Central Valley — Lehrer calls all of it a “choreography of place.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
The central summit area is marked by several elevated mesas forming an arc, reaching a regional high and sloping downhill away from the summit area.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024
It included relocating 350,000 cubic yards of soil that the golf course developers had taken from nearby mesas and pushed atop wetlands to create the course decades ago.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2024
They had seen him and they were scattering between juniper trees, through tall yellow grass, below the mesas near the dripping spring.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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