The plateau is covered entirely by Cerrado, a biologically rich savanna and grassland ecosystem. The OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) on Landsat 9 captured this image of the landform on May 19, 2025.

Certain high landforms such as southern Africa’s Drakensberg escarpment (shown) may form when waves in Earth’s mantle gradually excoriate a continent’s keel, buoying up the surface.

Laoniu Bay has typical characteristics of the Loess Plateau landform, it's the only confluence of the Yellow River and the Great Wall. The Yellow River flows southward through Laoniu Bay, while ...

Map of Sichuan landform. Sichuan has a complex and varied topography. ... Plateau and mountainous areas can be seen in west Sichuan with elevations of over 4,000 meters above sea level, ...

An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff and a plateau is a flat, elevated landform. Now scientists say they have found why and how parts of continents slowly rise to form these landforms.

Located in the Alashan Plateau in the hyper-arid and temperate desert region of northwestern China, the Badain Jaran Desert is a meeting point for three sandy regions of China and is the country’s ...

A cluster of village houses stand out in the well-arranged terraced rice fields in Pinglu county, North China's Shanxi province, creating an idyllic summer scene.