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A
dissected plateau is a
plateau area that has been uplifted, then severely eroded so that the relief is sharp. Such an area may be referred to as mountainous, but dissected plateaus are distinguishable from
orogenic mountain belts by the lack of folding,
metamorphism, extensive
faulting, or
magmatic activity that accompanies
orogeny. The
Allegheny Plateau, the
Cumberland Plateau, the
Ozark Plateau, the
Catskill Mountains, and the
Blue Mountains are examples of dissected plateaus.
In
Russia and
Central Asia a similar
landform type is known as
syrt.
These older
uplifts have been eroded by
creeks and
rivers to develop steep relief not immediately distinguishable from
mountains. Many areas of the Allegheny Plateau and the [Cumberland Plateau, which are at the western edge of the
Appalachian Mountains of eastern
North America, are called "mountains" but are actually dissected plateaus. One can stand on a high "mountain" and note that all the other tops are at the same height, which represents the original
plain before uplift.
A dissected plateau may also be formed, or created, usually on a comparatively small scale, by the levelling of terrain by planing and deposition beneath an
ice sheet or perhaps, an
ice cap. Subsequently, during the same or a later
glacial, the margins of the
glacial till plain are removed by
glaciers, leaving the plateau into which erosion by
water incises
valleys. Such a plateau may be level or gently sloping but may be distinguished by the till caps on its hills. Glacial till is still widely known in
Britain by the older name of boulder clay.
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