• 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.

Nanle County, which belongs to Puyang City, Henan Province, is located at the northeast end of Henan Province. It has jurisdiction over 4 towns and 8 townships with a population of 528600 (2012). It is located in the Central Plains, in the south of North China Plain, and at the confluence of Henan, Hebei and Shandong provinces. there are Daguang Expressway, Nanlin Expressway, 106National Highway and 341National Highway. And Hebei Handan, Shandong Liaocheng border, the territory of 623 square kilometers. Nanle County is the hometown of Sheng Cangjie. Tang Dynasty eminent monks, astronomers and his party's hometown, specializing in the ancient Maotai-flavor wine "Xuanjiu" and so on. It was calculated that the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012 was 10.79613 billion yuan, an increase of 14.3% over the previous year at comparable prices.
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