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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.

Mianzhu, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Sichuan Province, is hosted by Deyang City. Located in the northwest of Sichuan Basin, backed by the Longmen Mountains, covering an area of 1245 square kilometers, it has jurisdiction over 20 towns and a township with a total population of 501000 in 2017. The city is located in Jingyang District of Deyang City in the southeast, bordering Anzhou District of Mianyang City in the northeast, facing Shifang City in the southwest and adjoining Mao County in Aba Prefecture in the northwest. It is a national pilot city for development and reform, a pilot city with multiple regulations in the 13th five-year Plan, a resource-mature city, and a demonstration county for leisure agriculture and rural tourism. Sichuan Province has a beautiful environment demonstration city, a strong industrial county demonstration county (city), and a key county to promote the construction of a new countryside as a whole. Mianzhu belongs to the humid climate zone in the middle subtropics of Sichuan Basin with a mild climate. It is the producing area of Jiannanchun, one of the three famous liquors in China. The Jiuding Mountain in the territory is a country.
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