A broad, flat-topped highland built by repeated, wide-spreading eruptions of fluid basaltic lava that flooded the landscape in successive horizontal layers rather than building a single central cone. The Columbia Plateau in the northwestern United States and the Deccan Plateau in India are among the largest lava plateaus on Earth.
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A volcanic plateau is a plateau produced by volcanic activity.
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