• 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.

Jianhe County is located in southeastern Guizhou Province, central Qiandongnan Prefecture, Tianzhu County and Jinping County in the east, Liping County and Rongjiang County in the south, Leishan County and Taijiang County in the west, and Shibing County, Zhenyuan County and Sansui County in the north. It is 294 kilometers away from the provincial capital Guiyang and 98 kilometers away from the state capital Kaili. With a total area of 2176 square kilometers, it has jurisdiction over 1 street, 11 towns and 1 township. The county people's government is now stationed in Yangasha Street.
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