• Mesa
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A mesa is an isolated, flat-topped elevation, ridge or hill, which is bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding plain. Mesas characteristically consist of flat-lying soft sedimentary rocks capped by a more resistant layer or layers of harder rock, e.g. shales overlain by sandstones. The resistant layer acts as a caprock that forms the flat summit of a mesa. The caprock can consist of either sedimentary rocks such as sandstone and limestone; dissected lava flows; or a deeply eroded duricrust. Unlike plateau, whose usage does not imply horizontal layers of bedrock, e.g. Tibetan Plateau, the term mesa applies exclusively to the landforms built of flat-lying strata. Instead, flat-topped plateaus are specifically known as tablelands.

Anji is a county under the jurisdiction of Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Located in the hinterland of the Yangtze River Delta. Tianmu Mountains enter from the southwest, divided into east and west branches encircling both sides of the county, showing a "dustpan-shaped" convergent basin topography surrounded by mountains on three sides, a depression in the middle and a dustpan-shaped opening in the northeast. The terrain is high in the southwest and low in the northeast. It belongs to subtropical marine monsoon climate. It has jurisdiction over 15 townships (streets), with a registered population of 466100 in 2016. Anji County was founded in the second year of Hanzhong Ping (185), named after "the Book of songs". It is an important activity place of the ancient Yue State and the seat of Guzheng County, one of the 36 counties in the Qin Dynasty. The emergence of the Southern Dynasty Liang litterateur Wu Jun, the three Kingdoms Eastern Wu General Zhu ran, modern art master Wu Changshuo, the famous forestry scientist Chen Rong, painter Zhu Le San and other famous experts. In 2005, Xi Jinping proposed in Anji
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