Isolated flat-topped hills and long table-like ridges left standing as the surrounding plateau is eroded away, such as buttes, mesas and potreros. A landform belongs here when its cited article calls it a mesa, a butte or a long mesa sloping to higher ground. It excludes badlands, rock pillars and erosion surfaces. Steep sides of resistant rock cap softer layers below, and a mesa narrows into a butte and then a pillar as erosion continues.
All Mesas, Buttes and Plateau Remnants
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Jebel Barkal (Wikipedia)
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Jebel Barkal or Gebel Barkal (Arabic: جبل بركل, romanized: Jabal Barkal) is a mesa located 400 km north of Khartoum, next to Karima in Northern State in Sudan, and near the Nile River in Nubia.
Butte (Wikipedia)
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In geomorphology, a butte ( BEWT) is an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; buttes are smaller landforms than mesas, plateaus, and tablelands.
Potrero (landform) (Wikipedia)
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A potrero is a long mesa that at one end slopes upward to higher terrain.
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