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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.

Jingxian County, which belongs to Hengshui City, Hebei Province, is located in the southeast of Hebei Province, east of Hengshui City, close to Dezhou City, Shandong Province, the west bank of the Grand Canal, and is located in the economic development area around Beijing and Tianjin, around the Bohai Sea, and the triangle economic center of Beijing, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang and Jinan, with a total area of 1183 square kilometers and 1.25 million mu of arable land. It is a "Nanfang" economic region for Hebei Province to implement the strategy of "one line and two carriages" in the Eleventh five-year Plan. Since 2007, Jingxian has been named as "China Rubber and plastic Pipe Industry Base", "China Iron Tower Manufacturing Base" and "China forklift fork Manufacturing Base" by relevant national industry associations. In 2013, there were 3 national key cultural relics protection units in Jingxian County (Jingzhou Shili Pagoda, Feng's Tomb Group, Gao's Tomb Group) and 1 provincial key cultural relics protection unit (Zhou Yafu Tomb).
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