• Mesa
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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.

Lichuan County, Xiazhou County, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province, is located in the east-central part of Jiangxi Province, at the western foot of the middle part of the Wuyi Mountains. Lichuan County is adjacent to the four counties of Guangze, Shaowu, Taining and Jianning in Fujian Province and the three counties of Nancheng, Nanfeng and Zixi, which also belong to Fuzhou. Fuyin Expressway and Xiangshan Railway pass through the border, which is one of the eastern gates from Jiangxi to Fujian. It covers an area of 1728 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 6 towns, 8 townships and 1 reclamation farm, with a total population of 250000 (2017). The natural distribution can be summarized as "seven mountains and one water half field, half road and manor". In 2015, Lichuan County completed a GDP of 6.04 billion yuan, an increase of 9 percent over 2014, and the sown area of grain was 367000 mu, an increase of 0.37 percent over 2014. Lichuan County was selected in 2018 for its oil painting on January 9, 2019.
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