MESA (Span. mesa, from

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• LAT

Lat.

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• MENSA

mensa, a table)  , in physical geography, a high table-land capped with hard rock, being the remnant of a former plateau . This type is general where strata are horizontal . In the process of denudation the hard rock acts as a flat protective cap preserving the regions between stream valleys or other places where denudation is especially active, in the form of " table-mountains or " fortress-hills." Many examples are found in Spain, North and South Africa, the Bad Lands and Colorado regions of North America, in Arabia, India and Australia .