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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.

Huachi County, which belongs to Qingyang City, Gansu Province, is located in the east of Gansu Province and northeast of Qingyang City, bordering Zhidan, Wuqi and Dingbian in Shaanxi Province in the northeast, and Huanxian, Qingcheng and Heshui in the southwest. It is located between longitude 107 °29 "108 °33" east and latitude 36 °07 "36 °51 'north. It has jurisdiction over 4 towns and 11 townships, with a total land area of 3776 square kilometers and a total population of 138000 (resident population in 2016). In 2013, the GDP of Huachi County reached 9.2 billion yuan. Huachi County has been awarded as "National Scientific and technological Progress County", "National Advanced County in surveying and Mapping Management", "Provincial double support Model County", "Provincial Greening Model County", "Provincial civilized County" and "Provincial Health County" by the state and province. December 2016, listed as the third batch
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