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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.

Lingcheng District, under the jurisdiction of Dezhou City, Shandong Province, is the hometown of Shandong Quyi. It is located in the northwest plain of Shandong Province, between Beijing, Tianjin and Jinan. By 2014, it had jurisdiction over 10 towns, 1 township, 2 subdistrict offices and 2 economic development zones, with a total population of 577000, including an agricultural population of 480000, with a total area of 1213 square kilometers and 1.2 million mu of arable land. Lingcheng District, Dezhou City has a long history, known as the "Zhisheng" Han Wu Emperor Taizhong doctor, writer, comic master Dong Fangshuo's hometown in Shentou Town. Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy "Oriental Shuo painting Zan Stele" is a national first-class cultural relic, which is now collected in Wenbo Garden, Lingcheng District, Dezhou City. The ruins of the ancient city of Pingyuan County in Tang Dynasty were built for Yan Zhenqing to be punctual here. There are provincial key cultural relics protection units "Han Tomb Group"
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