A butte is an isolated hill with steep, often near vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top, smaller in scale than the mesas, plateaus and tablelands it otherwise resembles. The word comes from the French butte, meaning knoll, and the landform is especially associated with the western United States, where the larger equivalent feature is called a mesa.
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
Source Wikidata: Butte
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Wikidata: Butte
Wikidata Q9668976, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Butte (Wikipedia)
In Group: Mesas, Buttes and Plateau Remnants, Lead sentenceQuote, In Group: Mesas, Buttes and Plateau Remnants, Lead sentence
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.
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