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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.

Baoxing County, which belongs to Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, is located in the west of Sichuan Province, the western edge of Sichuan Basin, with a total area of 3114 square kilometers, under the jurisdiction of 3 towns, 5 townships and moraine Tibetan townships, with a population of 58335 (at the end of 2010). Baoxing County is adjacent to Lushan to the east, Tianquan to the south, Kangding to the west, Xiaojin to the north, and Wenchuan to the northeast, 200 kilometers away from Chengdu. Baoxing Fengdongzhai is the first place in the world to find giant pandas and is known as "the hometown of giant pandas". In 2013, the GDP of Baoxing County reached 2.052 billion yuan, and the per capita GDP reached 34000 yuan.
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