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Plateaus of brass appearing on a sonic horizon like a strip of dry land.

From Washington Post • May 13, 2022

Microplastic rains down from the Antarctic to the Arctic, from Tibetan Plateaus to the peaks of the Pyrenees.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2021

Plateaus and mesas and canyons and buttes characterize the region north of White River and stretch out to the Yampa.

From Canyons of the Colorado by Powell, John Wesley

In order clearly to understand this explanation the reader is referred to the illustration designated "Section and Bird's-Eye View of the Plateaus North of the Grand Canyon."

From Canyons of the Colorado by Powell, John Wesley

To the east, the province meets the Alleghany and New England Plateaus, and is connected with them by the upper Ohio and by the line of the Erie Canal.

From The Frontier in American History by Turner, Frederick Jackson