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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mesa within the valley of a river and carved out of the confluent alluvial fans of its tributaries by the sapping of the river itself and by the erosion of its affluents.

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  • One might expect to encounter a table plain where a bajada had previously formed and was subjected to erosion.

    December 8, 2010