Dissected plateau

View of the dissected plateau at Chapada Diamantina, Brazil.
Shaded relief map of the Cumberland Plateau and the Ridge and Valley Appalachians on the Virginia/West Virginia border

A dissected plateau is a plateau area that has been severely eroded, and the relief is sharp. Such an area may be referred to as mountainous, but dissected plateaus are distinguishable from orogenic mountain belts by the lack of folding, metamorphism, extensive faulting, or magmatic activity accompanying orogeny.

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