• 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.

Gutian County (ancient Gutian County, Fuzhou Capital), is now under the jurisdiction of Ningde City, Fujian Province, located in the northeast of Fujian Province, the north bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Minjiang River, Gutian Creek runs through the whole territory. The county was founded in the 29 year of Tang Kaiyuan (741). It is known as "the hometown of hydropower", "the hometown of overseas Chinese", "the hometown of Chinese edible fungi", "the hometown of sports" and "the hometown of culture". Gutian is the capital of edible fungi in China; the per capita share of water resources ranks first in China; Gutianxi Hydropower Station is the first underground power station in China; Gutian has been rated as China's advanced sports county and Chinese cultural model county. In December 2016, it was listed as the third batch of national comprehensive pilot areas for new urbanization. In 2018, the regional GDP reached 16.75044 billion yuan, an increase of 5.1%, of which the added value of the primary industry was 4.39291 billion yuan.
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