Dissected plateau this plateau are known as mesas, and long, connected portions are known as potreros. Dissected plateau A dissected plateau is a plateau area that has been 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, and the Catskill Mountains in the United States and the Blue Mountains in Australia and the Deccan Plateau in India are examples of dissected plateaus
Hemimont Plateau Hemimont Plateau Hemimont Plateau (, ‘Plato Hemimont’ \pla-'to 'he-mi-mont\) is the ice-covered plateau of elevation about 1600 m in southern Graham Land, Antarctica situated midway between Loubet Coast and Fallières Coast on the west, and Bowman Coast on the east, and extending 100 km from the heads of Finsterwalder Glacier and Demorest Glacier on the north to Neny Glacier on the south. Its higher southern part rises to over 1700 m and features McLeod Hill, Beacon Hill and Armadillo Hill. The plateau is named after the Roman province of Hemimont in Southeastern Bulgaria. Hemimont Plateau is centred at . British