Mesa Sunrise

Mesa

A mesa is an isolated, flat-topped elevation, ridge, or hill, bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and standing distinctly above a surrounding plain. Mesas consist of flat-lying soft sedimentary rocks, such as shales, capped by a resistant layer of harder rock, like sandstone or limestone, forming a caprock that protects the flat summit. The caprock may also include dissected lava flows or eroded duricrust.

Sunrise

Sunrise is the moment when the upper rim of the Sun appears on the horizon in the morning, at the start of the Sun path. The term can also refer to the entire process of the solar disk crossing the horizon.

mesa

Noun

1. A flat area of land higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.
2. a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it

sunrise

Noun

1. The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.
2. The change in color of the sky at dawn.

Verb

1. To phase in.
2. To awake.