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A witness hill is a type of
landform A landform is a natural or anthropogenic land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Landforms include hills, ...
created from the erosion of the earth. It is a testimony of the evolution and retreat of a platform or cuesta relief, that is, it is a rest of the platform in a relief where there are layers of hard and soft rocks arranged horizontally in which erosion has sculpted landscapes that are also horizontal. As the erosion produced by the rivers increases in the soft layers, hills are formed, and if the plateau is attacked by erosion from all sides, the witness hills with flat summits appear. They are therefore, the "witnesses" of the platform that existed in that place millions of years ago. Some examples of this type of geological formation are: Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, Dori Plateau, Burkina Faso,
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and the ''Hills of Guayana'', Venezuela. These hills are quite common in the sedimentary basins of the Meseta Central of the Iberian Peninsula,{{Citation not found, date=January 2023 in the
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and in the tabular reliefs.


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