How is a plateau formed
Plateaus formation video
all right my name is Bear Grylls and I'm
going to show you how plateaus are
formed let's begin
alright right now I'm in my helicopter
and we are currently flying in Cape Town
South Africa I'm here with my camera
crew my pilot and all my wits in
survival but right now I'm not going to
teach you how to survive here right now
I'm going to teach you how plateaus are
made one of the plateaus here in Cape
Town is Table Mountain and Table
Mountain sits at three thousand five
hundred fifty eight feet above sea level
it is one of the most famous and
prominent plateaus in all of South
Africa plateaus are built over millions
of years as pieces of Earth's cross
smash into each other melt and gurgle
back to the surface
some are formed through a single process
others I'm through multiple many
plateaus form as magma deep inside the
earth pushes towards the surface but
fails to break through the crust instead
what this causes is that this causes the
magma to lift up large flat rocks above
it and repeated lava flows blows out
from the cracks in the ground and
spreads out over hundreds of square
miles
this can slowly build up into massive
plateaus like the one you see right in
front of us
other plateaus are created over time
through wind and rain as it tears away
from the ground this gives it a
geographical distinction from the
surrounding terrain now although this
Plateau sits high above sea level
plateaus can also form in the ocean this
is because water is one of the most
powerful forms of erosion there is in
nature in some cases when water is
primarily used to create plateaus it can
form rivers which carve into valleys or
sometimes even cause the plateaus to
become majestic chasms or sometimes even
form canyons some other plateaus are
Motorolla EEMA cocooning temporary and
ion temporary they're all located
somewhere around the area of Venezuela
all right and I'm landing now it's time
for me to end this is Bear Grylls
teaching you how to make a plateau even
though you can't but now you know and
remember stay away from bears this is
Bear Grylls
signing off happy physics everybody
