Mesa Mesa Mesa (Spanish and Portuguese for "table") is the American English term for tableland, an elevated area of land with a flat top and sides that are usually steep cliffs. It takes its name from its characteristic table-top shape. It may also be called a table hill, table-topped hill or table mountain. It is larger than a butte, which it otherwise resembles closely. It is a characteristic landform of arid environments, particularly the Western and Southwestern United States in badlands and mountainous regions ranging from Washington and California to the Dakotas, Wyoming, Utah, Oklahoma, and Texas. Examples are also found
Volhynian Upland Volhynian Upland The Volhynian Upland (, "volynska vysochyna") is an upland in western Ukraine, with its small northwestern part stretching into eastern Poland. The Podolian Upland and the Volhynian Upland are sometimes grouped together as the Volhynian-Podolian Upland. It should be known that both uplands are separated by a plain called "Little Polesia" (). Volhynian Upland lays between Western Bug and Korchyk River which is a tributary of Sluch River. It stretches for over with a width around . Average elevation is with the maximum being Mizoch Ridge . Its surface is weakly wavy dissected by wide river valleys and