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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.

Binzhou, formerly known as Luozhou and Luozhou, belongs to Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, located in the west of Weibei Plateau, the middle and lower reaches of Jinghe River, Xunyi County and Chunhua County in the east, Changwu County and Lingtai County in Gansu Province in the west, Yongshou County and Linyou County in the south, and Zhengning County in Gansu Province in the north. It is 120km south from Xianyang, 150km from the provincial capital Xi'an, 160km north from Gansu Pingliang, with a total area of 1185 square kilometers, and has jurisdiction over 8 towns, one street and one administrative village. In 2017, the registered population was 366800. In 2017, the gross domestic product (GDP) of Binzhou was 21.362 billion yuan. In July 2013, Binxian (Binzhou) was awarded the title of "National Greening Model County". In June 2018, counties were removed and cities were established. 2019 Top 100 counties and cities in western China
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