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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.

Jiaxing, also known as "Hecheng", is a prefecture-level city in Zhejiang Province, the Yangtze River Delta Urban agglomeration, important cities in the Shanghai Metropolitan area, the core city in the Dawan area of Zhejiang Province, the vice central city of Hangzhou Metropolitan area and the central city of Shanghai-Jiahang G60 Science and Technology creation Corridor. located in the northeast of Zhejiang Province, the hinterland of the Hangjiahu Plain in the Yangtze River Delta. Jiaxing is located at the river-lake sea rendezvous, strangling the throat of the south corridor of Taihu Lake, less than 100 kilometers away from Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Ningbo and other cities. The land area is 4275.05 square kilometers (including the water area of the Qiantang River, the dividing line between the river and sea of the Qiantang River is connected by Haiyan Qipu-Yuyaoxi three gates). Jiaxing system began in the Qin Dynasty, has more than 2000 years of human history, has been a prosperous and rich place since ancient times, known as the "land of fish and rice", "silk"
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