How could the busy place he left in the morning become a vast plateau of emptiness in just a few hours?

(On a planet like Venus, with no water, the depressions appear to form a vast plain above which rise plateaux).

That lost world looms ahead of us now; a vast plateau buttressed by sheer cliffs.

Here the ledge opened out into a vast grassy plateau encircled by spires of stone.

It was this vast and austere plateau that I had come to explore.

Then he tapped a spot far south of the vast plateau.

Gjerdeheia forms a vast and completely flat plateau on top.

She seemed to be standing in sunlight, on some vast, windswept plateau high above the world.

The lava created a vast plateau whose remnants are known as the Deccan Traps.

The northern half of Uaia is a vast plateau called the Palga.