• 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.

Decheng District, an area under the jurisdiction of Dezhou City, Shandong Province, is located in the northwest of Shandong Province. It is the central city of Dezhou City, with Beijing and Tianjin in the north and Jinan in the south. It is located in Tianjin Binhai New area and Bohai Economic Circle. As of 2016, Decheng District has jurisdiction over 7 streets, 5 towns, 48 urban communities and 54 rural communities, covering an area of 231square kilometers and a resident population of 445300. Decheng District has the second largest thermal power plant in China: Huaneng Dezhou Power Plant, with an annual surplus of 6 billion kilowatt hours, and three large plain reservoirs with reserves of 200 million cubic meters. it has six thermal power plants with daily heating of 3000 tons and natural gas pipeline network with daily gas supply of 300000 cubic meters. In 2017, the annual GDP of Decheng District reached 29.61 billion yuan, calculated at comparable prices, compared with the same period last year.
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