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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.

Dancheng County is under the jurisdiction of Zhoukou City, located in the east of Henan Province, at the junction of Henan and Anhui provinces, and its geomorphology is the East Henan Plain. The Sui Dynasty opened the emperor six years (586) Zidan County, for the beginning of the city of Jindan County, the Tang Dynasty waste Dan County, most of the history of Luyi County, Dancheng County was established in 1952. By the end of 2013, Dancheng County had a registered population of 1403085 and a resident population of 952600; it had jurisdiction over 8 towns, 11 townships, 3 streets and 1 industrial agglomeration area, 523 village-level organizations (488 administrative villages and 35 neighborhood committees), with a total area of 1490 square kilometers. In 2010, the GDP of Dancheng County reached 13.732 billion yuan, an increase of 12.3% over 2009. There are famous ruins such as Prince Shengxian Pavilion and Princess Mausoleum in Dancheng County.
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