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[[Image:Isaanmountains.svg|thumb|Map of Korat-Basin.]]
'''The Khorat Plateau''' also Korat Plateau, is a plateau in the northeastern (Isan) region of Thailand, named for the short form of [[Nakhon Ratchasima]], an historical [[stronghold]] controlling access to and from the plateau.

==Geography==
(contracted; show full)| title        = Geotectonics and Geologic Evolution of Thailand
| page         = 224
| location     = Bangkok
| publisher    = National Conference on Geologic Resources of Thailand
| format       =
| url          = http://library.dmr.go.th/library/6198.pdf
| quote        = ...latest Pleistocene early to the Recent regional uplifting must have occurred.

|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/20110820011502/library.dmr.go.th/library/6198.pdf|archivedate=2011-08-20}}</ref> approximately Year 1 of the  [[Holocene calendar]]. Much of the surface of the plateau was once classified as [[laterite]], and layers that can easily be cut into brick-shaped blocks are still so called, but the classification of [[soil]]s as various types of [[oxisol]]s is more useful for [[agriculture]]. Oxisols of the type called rhodic ferralsols, or [[Yasothon Province|Yasothon]] soils, formed under humid tropical conditions in the early [[Tertiary]]. When portions of the plain uplifted (contracted; show full)* [http://www.experiencefestival.com/khorat_plateau Khorat Plateau]: A selection of articles related to Khorat Plateau from Global Oneness.
*[http://www.eoearth.org/article/Northern_Khorat_Plateau_moist_deciduous_forests Northern Khorat Plateau moist deciduous forests]

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[[Category:Plateaus of Thailand|Khorat]]
[[Category:Isan]]
[[Category:Natural regions]]