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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.

Guangning County, which belongs to Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, is located in the central and western part of Guangdong Province, in the middle reaches of Suijiang River, a tributary of Beijiang River. Located in the one-hour living circle of the Pearl River Delta, it is one of the main passageways for Guangdong Province to travel to and from the Pearl River Delta by land from the nearest mountain counties in Guangdong Province and Guangxi, Hunan and other provinces. It is about 122.7 kilometers away from Guangzhou, and runs through the Erguang Expressway and Guiyang-Guangzhou High-speed Railway. The administrative area of the county covers an area of 2455 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 15 towns. in 2017, the county has a registered population of 589300. During the reign of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, riots occurred year after year in the northwest of Sihui County (now Guangning). In the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing, he successively led the Ming army to suppress the chaos. In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing, Che Sihui County was home to Guangning County. With the meaning of broad peace, Guangning was established. After its establishment, it still belongs to Zhaoqing Prefecture. one
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