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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.

Fuquan City, known as Qiilan in ancient times, is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, China. It is located in the middle of Guizhou Province, between longitude 107 °14 "24"-107 °45 "35" east and latitude 26 °32 "28"-27 °02 "23" north. The longest is 55.2 km from north to south and the widest from east to west is 52.1 km. The total area is 1688 square kilometers. The city has jurisdiction over 5 towns, 1 township, 2 streets, 16 neighborhood committees and 60 village committees. The total population is 294400 (2016), of which 62000 are non-agricultural and 85400 are ethnic minorities. There are 25 ethnic groups, including Han, Miao, Buyi, Dong, Yi and Shui. Fuquan has "Asian phosphorus Capital & quot;,"hometown of Fruit & quot;," and a famous cultural city.
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