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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.

Ninger Hani Yi Autonomous County is one of the counties under the jurisdiction of Pu'er City, Yunnan Province, people's Republic of China. It is located in the south of Yunnan Province and in the middle of Pu'er City. It is the key point of southern Yunnan and is connected with Simao, Mojiang, Jiangcheng, Jinggu and Zhenyuan districts (counties). It is 370 kilometers away from the provincial capital Kunming in the north and 33 kilometers away from Simao District where the municipal government is located in the south. The total area of the county is 3670 square kilometers. The whole territory of Ning'er County is mountainous, the landform crisscross, and the geological structure belongs to karst landform. Belongs to the south subtropical mountain monsoon climate, both tropical, subtropical, southern temperate zone and other climate types. As of 2014, Ninger Hani and Yi Autonomous County has jurisdiction over 6 towns and 3 townships. In 2015, the county's local GDP was 4.267 billion yuan, the per capita disposable income of urban residents was 23852 yuan, and that of rural residents
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