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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.

Liangyuan District is the municipal district of Shangqiu City, Henan Province, located in the north of Shangqiu City, the south bank of the old Yellow River, and located at the junction of Henan and Shandong provinces. It is adjacent to Suiyang District in the south, Shangqiu New area in the east and Yucheng County, Xilian Minquan County and Ningling County, and Heze City in Shandong Province to the north. As of 2017, the region has jurisdiction over 16 streets (towns and townships), with a total area of 542square kilometers and a total population of 496000 (excluding Shangqiu New area). Liangyuan Park is the economic, cultural, transportation and information center of Shangqiu City, and the regional trade and logistics center in the border area of Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces. Longhai Railway, Beijing-Kowloon Railway, Zheng-Xu High-speed Railway, Shanghai-Hangzhou High-speed Railway, Beijing-Kowloon High-speed Railway, Lianghuo Expressway,
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