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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.

Longhu District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, located in the eastern part of Guangdong Province, is named after Longhugou. Longhu District, located in the central urban area of Shantou City, is the birthplace of Shantou Special Economic Zone and a famous hometown of overseas Chinese. The area covers an area of 103.13 square kilometers, with 5 streets of Jinxia, Zhuchi, Xinjin, Longxiang and Oulting and 2 towns of Wisha and Xinxi. In 2012, Longhu District had a total of 110630 registered households and a total population of 409999, with a regional gross domestic product (GDP) of 20.012 billion yuan. Longhu District has won many honorary titles, such as the advanced area of national civil affairs work, the advanced area of national scientific and technological progress assessment, the first batch of county engineering areas with strong intellectual property rights, the national advanced collective of population and family planning, and the "advanced unit of provincial aging work".
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