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| | GERMAN - Online Information article about GERMAN |
 | | PLATEAU (a French term, older platel, for a flat piece of wood, metal, &c., from plat, flat) |
 | | plateau, which, gently rising from the interior towards the west, slopes again towards the south and north from the point of its highest elevation. |
 | | Geology.—Gneiss and schist, with intrusive granites and porphyries, overlain to a great extent by sand and lateritic deposits, occupy the coast belt, coast mountains and the plateau of Damaraland. |
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