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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.

Lianhua County is located in the west of Jiangxi Province, south of Pingxiang City, bordered by Anfu County in the northeast, Yongxin County in the southeast, Chaling County and you County in Hunan Province in the southwest, and Luxi County in the north. It is about 58 km long from north to south and 38 km wide from east to west. it is located in longitude 113o 46mm east and latitude 26 °57m. It covers an area of 1062.06 square kilometers and has a forest coverage of 66 per cent. Lianhua County has jurisdiction over 8 townships, 5 towns, 1 reclamation farm, 2 neighborhood committees and 157administrative villages, with a total population of 260000 (2013), including an agricultural population of 218000. The county people's government is stationed in Qinting Town. In January 2015, the China Flower Association awarded Lianhua County as the "hometown of Lotus in China". April 28, 2019
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