Abstract
The Etendeka Plateau is composed of eroded sheets of basaltic lava laid down in the early Cretaceous Cretaceous as a result of sea floor spreading and the opening of the South Atlantic. It is part of one of the world’s large igneous provinces and is matched in Brazil by the Paraná basaltsParaná basalts. The lavas give rise to striking flat-topped hills and plateaus, which are the eroded remnants of previously more extensive flows.
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Goudie, A., & Viles, H. (2015). The Etendeka Plateau. In World Geomorphological Landscapes (pp. 73–75). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8020-9_9
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