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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.

Dawu County, which belongs to Xiaogan City, Hubei Province, is located on the border between Hubei and Henan in the northeast of Hubei Province, the southwest section of the Dabie Mountains, 48.8km from north to south and 42.2km from east to west, with a total area of 1985.71 square kilometers. Dawu County, formerly known as Lishan County, was founded in 1933 and renamed Dawu County in 1952. It is the hinterland of the old revolutionary base area of Hubei, Henan and Anhui. Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu, Li Xiannian, Xu Qian and other party and state leaders left battle footprints in Dawu, and it was also the hometown of Li Yuanhong, the great president of the Republic of China. In 2018, Dawu County has jurisdiction over 14 towns and 3 townships. In 2017, Dawu County had a total population of 632012, with a gross domestic product (GDP) of 14.07977 billion yuan, of which the primary industry was finished.
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