A potrero is a long mesa that rises at one end to meet higher ground. The landform commonly occurs on the flank of a mountain, as part of a dissected plateau where erosion has cut the original tableland into separate remnants.
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In Discipline: Geomorphology, Lead paragraph
A potrero is a long mesa that at one end slopes upward to higher terrain
In Group: Mesas, Buttes and Plateau Remnants, Lead sentence
A potrero is a long mesa that at one end slopes upward to higher terrain.
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