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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.

Baoji, known as Chen Cang and Yongcheng in ancient times, is known as "the hometown of Emperor Yan and the hometown of bronzes". It is an important node city of Guanzhong Plain Urban agglomeration and the deputy central city of Guanzhong-Tianshui Economic Zone. Located in the west of Guanzhong Plain, it has jurisdiction over 3 districts and 9 counties, with a total area of 18100 square kilometers. At the end of 2018, the resident population was 3.771 million. Baoji has a long history and is the seat of Baoxue (Baoji School). It has a history of more than 2700 years. It has unearthed the four great national treasures of the late Qing Dynasty, stone drums, he Zun and other cultural relics, as well as Chinese crafts such as Xifu Social Fire, Fengxiang wooden New year paintings, clay sculptures and so on. Baoji is a national civilized city, an excellent tourist city in China, a national forest city and a national ecological garden city. It has Famen Temple, Taibai Mountain National Forest Park, Guanshan grassland and Chinese Stone Drum Garden (Baoji).
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