plateaus

They are sprawling lands of seemingly endless vistas and soaring plateaus.

As we passed the high plateaus and rounded the last cliffside into the open country, we spied a massive caravan—three hundred camels deep—a moving village riding toward us.

The walls of the plateaus provided shade.

The Taklamakan and its buried cities gave way to the western high plateaus where the ground hardened into clay, and gorges had been cut into the rock shelves.

They were surprised to find that the contact angle did not increase linearly with increasing alcohol concentration, but instead the plot showed an irregular series of plateaus as it increased.