dissected plateau in a sentence

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1. Like the Catskills as a whole, a dissected plateau, Balsam was formed not through the Wisconsin periods, shaped the slopes of the mountain, making them even steeper and gradually forming Esopus Creek from its meltwater.
2. The landform of the area is on Canoelands Ridge, a high, undulating, dissected plateau of Hawkesbury Sandstone with many steep gullies covered with dry sclerophyll forest, predominantly tall varieties of hardwood trees of the genus Eucalyptus.
3. The general terrain in the northern and northwestern part of Ghana outside the Volta Basin consists of a dissected plateau, which averages between 150 and 300 meters in elevation and, in some places, is even higher.
4. The dissected plateau area, while not actually made up of geological mountains, is popularly called " mountains, " especially in eastern Kentucky and West Virginia, and while the ridges are not high, the terrain is extremely rugged.
5. The Catskills were formed 250-350 million years ago, during the Devonian and Silurian periods, when the sands and silt that had eroded from the uplifted as a single unit and gradually streams eroded valleys, creating a dissected plateau.
6. The local region is known as the Endless Mountains, but despite the name these are not true mountains : instead millions of years of erosion have made this a dissected plateau, causing the " mountainous " terrain seen today.
7. Note that neither the Adirondacks ( uplifted by hot spot ) nor the Catskills or Poconos ( dissected plateau formed from delta deposits ) are part of the Appalachian Mountain chain ( faulted and folded by continental collisions ).
8. The Garhjat Range is a northeastern prolongation of the eastern Ghats which rises abruptly and steeply in the east and slopes gently to a dissected plateau in the west running from north-west ( Mayurbhanj ) to south-west ( Malkangiri ).
9. The two villages and their monasteries are similar in many ways, and lie in plain view of each other on a dissected plateau formation, separated by a deep " crack " formed by a small river flowing into the Debed river.
10. The Geology section of that article describes how the creek is in a dissected plateau and at right the creek can be seen cutting into Camp Mountain ( it forms a water gap through the mountain just downstream of the site pictured ).