plateau-lands

Updated: May 11, 2025

The latter, when evaporation will not balance the supply to a "sink," "escape from the basin of the central plateau-lands, and enter the ocean through deep lateral gorges, formed at some ancient period of elevation and disturbance, when the containing chains were subject to transverse fractures."

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2

There you find them winding by a thousand loops like the sinuosities of a great serpent, rolling sluggishly along, with waters red and turbid as though they were rivers of blood! Such are the Brazos and the Red River. Strange rivers are they that struggle through the mountains, and valleys, and plateau-lands of the Great American Desert. Not less strange are its lakes.

Mayne Reid - The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness