Noun(1) a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides(2) a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper(3) a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region(4) has a flat top and sloping sides(5) a town in southwestern Montana(6) center for mining copper
Noun(1) a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides(2) a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper(3) a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region(4) has a flat top and sloping sides(5) a town in southwestern Montana(6) center for mining copper
(1) Located in southeastern Utah, Canyonlands encompasses high mesas and buttes , burnt red sandstone pinnacles and arches, and a myriad of canyons and deep gorges cut by the Green and Colorado Rivers.(2) Over the past 80 million years, the sand and mud of the sauropod nesting grounds have solidified into sandstone and mudstone that are visible today as distinct bands or layers in the site's ridges, buttes , and ravines.(3) Mesa table-mountains and free-standing buttes flashed by, chocolate-coloured and beige, magenta and orange.(4) Most notably, the hills and buttes that mark the landscape are generally depicted in a descriptive shorthand, outlined in a single stroke, or suggested by a mass of a single color.(5) The park shows off some of the most striking landscapes of sandstone buttes , mesas, and spires in the entire Southwest.(6) He explained the difference between the mesas and buttes in the distance and challenged us to find images of birds, couples dancing joyfully, and snakes in the sticklike forms of petroglyphs.(7) From Moab, they will drive to Monument Valley, famous for the towering red buttes and mesas, which have formed the background for countless westerns.(8) It's sheer desert for three-hundred miles, with only hills and buttes to alleviate the nothingness.(9) The vista before me was a classic of the American West: red sandstone buttes rising from a valley floor, made redder still by the setting sun.(10) From the edges of the valley, the land rises abruptly in steep high buttes .
