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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.

Lengshuijiang City is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Hunan Province, hosted by Loudi City. It is located in the middle of Hunan Province, with Lianyuan City in the east, Xinhua County in the west and Xinshao County in the south. It has 1 township, 5 towns and 4 streets under its jurisdiction, with a total area of 439 square kilometers. In 2016, Lengshuijiang had a total population of 372400 at the end of the year. Lengshuijiang City is high in the north and south and low in the middle, with an asymmetric saddle shape, a subtropical monsoon climate and convenient transportation. Hunan-Guizhou Railway and Louhuai Expressway run through the whole territory from east to west, and the water resources are navigable all the year round. Scenic spots include Boyue Cave, Mahayana Mountain and so on. Lengshuijiang is a typical resource-based industrial city. The tin mine in Lengshuijiang is known as "antimony capital of the world" because it is rich in antimony ore. Lengshuijiang is one of the cities supported by the national strategy of the rise of central China compared with the policy of the large-scale development of the western region.
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