What landform is a flat-topped rock or hill formation with steep sides?
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If the area in question is taller than it is wide it is a butte. If it is wider than tall it is a plateau. Syn of plateau are mesa, stage, table, tableland, or upland. In Scotland they are called tors. I have heard knolls but they may just be regular hills, while in the sea they can be stacks and promontories. In East Hampshire there are the chalk Hangers. They are wooded, not exposed like Dover's cliffs, but are a steep sided flat topped area.
Mesa
Probably a volcanic extrusion. That's the first thing that comes to mind. Joe's right about the name, a mesa or butte (mesas are bigger than buttes).
It is a MESA (Table in spanish)
Masa or Butte
It's call a Mesa in the SW...and while a butte can be a mesa, not all mesas are buttes.
In the northwest, we call them plateaus.
Bluff
It could be the core of an extinct volcano like Devils Post pile or that wonderful monolith in Montana. All of the other answers are true also. It could be where a fault in the earth has jutted up a piece of the land or like Yosemite National Park where the high country drops abruptly into the valley. Maybe even Niagara Falls. Sorry if that answer is all wet. It could also be a plane at the top of a mountain range where glaciers have done their duty.
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