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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.

Huaibei, referred to as "Huai", called "Xiangcheng" in ancient times, is a prefecture-level city in Anhui Province. The central city in the northeast of Anhui Province, an important energy city in the country. Located in the north of Anhui Province, it is located at the junction of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces, Xiao County in the north, Bozhou in the south, Suzhou in the east and Shangqiu in Henan Province in the west. It is 150km long from north to south and 50km from east to west, with a total area of 2802 square kilometers, making it the smallest prefecture-level city in Anhui Province. The total population in 2016 is 2.165 million. It has jurisdiction over three municipal districts in Xiangshan District, Liishan District, Duji District and one county in Suixi County. The municipal government is stationed in Xiangshan District. Huaibei has a long history and a gathering of humanities. More than four thousand years ago, the eleven ancestors of Shang and Tang Dynasty built the city at the southern foot of Xiangshan, which was the beginning of civilization. Since then, successive dynasties have set up counties and counties here. There are Uncle Yu, Huan Tan, Ji Kang, Liu Ling and so on.
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