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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.

Mado, which means "the source of the Yellow River" in Tibetan, is located in the northwest of Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, in the south of Qinghai Province, in the northwest of Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and belongs to Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Mado County is bordered by Dulan County, Haixi Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture in the north, Xinghai County in Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Maqin County in Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the east, Dari County in Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Shiqu County in Sichuan Province in the south, Qumalai County in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous County in the west, and Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the southwest. It is 207km wide from north to south and 228km long from east to west, with a total area of 25253 square kilometers. The average altitude is more than 4200 meters, and the annual average temperature is-4 ℃, which belongs to alpine steppe climate. Lake Eling, Lake Zaling, Lake Donggezona, Xingjinghai,
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