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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.

Pingli County, which belongs to Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, is located between 31 °37mm in north latitude and 109 °- 109 °33' in east longitude. It is bordered by Zhuxi County in Hubei Province in the east, Chengkou County in Chongqing in the south, Langao County in Ankang City, Shaanxi Province in the west, and Ankang City, Hanbin District, Xunyang County in Shaanxi Province in the north, and at the junction of Shaanxi, Hubei and Chongqing provinces in the north. The county seat is 60 kilometers away from the central city of Ankang City and 263 kilometers away from the provincial capital Xi'an. Pingli County is the "hometown of Nu WA". With 150000 mu of ecological tea garden and 38000 mu of gynostemma pentaphyllum, Pingli County is the first county in the production of gynostemma pentaphyllum and a famous tea county in Northwest China. In 2018, Pingli County had jurisdiction over 11 towns, with a regional gross domestic product (GDP) of 9.962 billion yuan, including 1.069 billion yuan for the primary industry.
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