Southwest tablelands

Usage examples of mesas.

Ahead, to the west, a backlit haze of dust reduced distant, eroded mesas to pale fantasy castles.

Wetherill was just one of the five mesas, spread out like the fingers of an open hand, that made up the park.

Durango wound down off the mesa and through the Mancos Valley nestled between the snow-topped La Plata mountains to the north and the red mesas to the south.

As far as the eye could see, the mesas, clothed in the verdure of spring, rolled in long swells away to the divides.

July sun, and for a full day twenty thousand beeves grazed in sight of each other on the mesas surrounding the head of Stinking Water.

The land here was flat, flowing into a sagebrush terrain as you approached the highway again, leading to pinon foothills and the high mountains in the east, to the gorge and a formation of delicate gray and beige mesas in the west.

Devine spoke with Chet Premminger about servicing the plane, she leaned on the hood, staring at what was left of the sunset, a few crimson and orange ribbons in the west, with mesas and gentle mountains silhouetted black like on corny picture postcards.

Behind the grassy hills to the right, Kenbeto Wash, and Bettonie Tsossie Wash, and Escalvada Wash, and Fajada Wash all got together after draining thousands of square miles of mountain slopes and mesas, and moved enough water to be called the Chaco River.

Ahead, the descent continued into a crowded maze of sandstone mesas, their level tops capped with ice and snow.

Despite the bright, mid-afternoon sun in the cloudless sky, the narrow, twisting channels between the mesas remained in deep shadow.

Beyond, the land fell away sharply, forming a broad valley marked by sunken, banded sandstone mesas rising from its base.

In the afternoons, if you could hover above the unexplored mesas and secret valleys of Hellespontus, you would see the first stirrings of the dust.