They compare closely with oceanic flood basalts that make up many oceanic ridges, plateaux, and sea mounts. |
Anemone City's sharply angled reef is broken by plateaux and shelves, where dense pinnacles and coral heads tower in a blaze of colour. |
These are important, not to find fish so much as underwater islands and plateaux in deeper areas just off shore. |
South is the desert and further south-east are more mountains with desolate plateaux and volcanic cones and craters. |
Lowlands, plains and plateaux, underlain by horizontal beds of sedimentary rock, give this region its typical subdued relief. |
We regularly find epaulette sharks, schools of bat fish, dozens of gorgonian fans, and a magnificent reef plateaux of unrivalled beauty. |