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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.

Pengxi County, the old revolutionary base of China, belongs to Suining City, Sichuan Province, and is located in the east of the middle of Sichuan Basin. It is adjacent to Chuanshan District, Shehong City, Daying, Guang'an Wusheng, Jialing District, Xichong and Tongnan District and Hechuan District of Chongqing. It covers an area of 1251 square kilometers. The county has jurisdiction over 19 townships and 1 street office. Pengxi County, where Communist Party of China established the first county-level Soviet government in Sichuan Province, enjoys the reputation of "Zidong Zoulu". Pengxi is the seclusion of Yan Junping, the Taoist school of the Han Dynasty, the ancestral place of the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Pengyi and the great poet Zhang Wentao. Famous tourist attractions are Chicheng Lake, Tangxing Academy, Gaofeng Mountain,
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