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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.

Raoping County is under the jurisdiction of Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province. Located in the east of Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province, east of Fujian Province, south of Nanhai, jurisdiction over 21 towns, a forest farm, a total of 394 village (neighborhood) committees. It covers an area of 2227 square kilometers, of which the land area is 1694 square kilometers, the sea area is 533 square kilometers, and the island coastline is 136km long. At the end of 2016, there were 1.071 million registered residents and 872000 permanent residents. Raoping County north Qianfeng Tingxiu, the central hills undulating, the southern plain fertile fields, coastal islands listed, many harbors. The whole territory belongs to the marine subtropical monsoon climate zone. The natural ecological environment is rich and diverse, with all kinds of ecological resources such as mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, high mountains, deep valleys, basins, plains, coasts and beaches, known as "Lingnan good resort, Yinghai ancient Penglai".
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