This narrow, unfenced road skirted a high tableland and gave on to a few lonely farms at the end of even narrower tracks.
As a general rule, the higher tablelands lie to the east and south, while a progressive diminution in altitude towards the west and north is observable.
Sure enough, what he'd thought was a long saddle between the peaks was actually a bit beyond them, and was the lip of a high tableland.
The city is situated on the Cerrado, high tableland intersected by deep gorges containing butte and mesa formations.
In the north there was nothing but mountains, deserts and high tablelands.
Celts and Iberians who merged on the meseta (the high tableland of central Spain) became the Celtiberians.
Turning on a western angle, a week's drive brought us out on a high tableland.
They were men and women who for years on end did not leave the high tableland, and had no wish to do so.
On the high tableland mean pressure was 953.112 millibars.
The high tableland between the rivers has been eroded into a region of forested buttes, ridges and canyons.