• 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.

Biyang County (bi yang), located in the south of Henan Province, belongs to Zhumadian City. It is named because it is located in the Yang of secreting water (the south of the mountain and the water of the north is the yang). It covers an area of 2335 square kilometers and has a population of more than 900,000. This area has a warm temperate continental monsoon climate, with an annual average temperature of 14.6 °C, an annual precipitation of 960 mm and a frost-free period of 219 days. Biyang County was established in the Western Han Dynasty, which was the original name of Bihe River. Biyang County is now Biyang County. The county has initially formed a complete industrial production system of medicine, chemical synthesis, cement, cotton spinning, food, beverage, feed processing and so on. The main local products are: Biyang mushroom, black fungus, Biyang donkey meat, two shops of beef, Magutian ladle pear, Jia Lou Baiyunxian peach, Xianghe jujube, Yangshi bun and so on. Tourist attractions are Tongshan, Baiyun Mountain and Tongshan Lake Reservoir.
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