• 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.

Dantu District, Zhenjiang Municipal District, Jiangsu Province. Located in the southwest of Jiangsu Province, around the city of Zhenjiang. The geographical coordinates are 119 °15mm east longitude 119 °45m, and latitude 31 °15mm 32 °16 'north. The east and north are respectively across the river from Yangzhong, Yangzhou and Yizheng, with Danyang in the southeast, Jintan in the south and Jirong in the west. The area is 611 square kilometers. At the end of 2011, the total registered population was 286700. The district people's government is stationed in Guyang town. The topography is high in the southwest, low in the northeast, and the residual vein of Yanmaoshan in the south, with Ningzhen mountains in the middle, undulating hills and multi-stage terraces; the polder area is magnanimous in the east and north, and the geomorphology can be roughly divided into four types: low mountains and hills, river terraces, interhilly valleys and alluvial plains. In October 2018, it was selected as the "Top 100 area of New urbanization quality in 2018".
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