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.

Taihang Mountain sites on the unique step-fault zone of the Loess Plateau and North China Plain, with huge altitude difference in landform (2,000 meters), good vegetation cover, cool climate and ...

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.

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.