• 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.

Longmatan District, which belongs to Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, is located in the south of Sichuan Basin, at the confluence of the Yangtze River and Tuojiang River. It intersects with Lu County in the west and north, Jiangyang District in the south and Lu County and Jiangyang District in the east. Longmatan District is the trade, logistics, economic and passenger transport center of Luzhou. It is a developed economic and trade area of Luzhou and one of the three main cities of Luzhou. At the same time, the Lingang area in southern Sichuan, a free trade pilot zone in China (Sichuan), is located in Longmatan District. Longmatan District covers an area of 332.64 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 7 streets and 5 towns. In 2013, Longmatan District had a total registered population of 357000 and a resident population of more than 500,000. GDP reached 16.188 billion yuan, an increase of 13.1% over 2012 at comparable prices. On February 2, 2019, it was rated as the national base at the county level by the State Administration of traditional Chinese Medicine.
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