Lava plateaus

A lava plateau is upland with more or less monotonous relief and formed by different or successive layers of lava. It’s formed by a quiet eruption where basic and therefore fluid lava flows out through several fissures in the earth crust and spreads out over a long distance covering any original valleys and hills on the landscape before solidifying as a sheet of basalt. Repeated fissure eruptions lead to the building of thick and high plateau which may reach 6000feet high. Examples include the Laikipia plateau on the eastern slopes of the Aberadare  ranges in in Kenya, Yatta plateau, Kisoro lava plateau, etc.