• 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.

Qi County (Q í xiqin) belongs to Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province, located in the middle of Shanxi Province, known as "Zhaoyu" in ancient times, named after "Zhaoyu Qi Ze Tou", the glassware capital of China. The county has jurisdiction over 6 towns and 2 townships (Zhaoyu Town, Dongguan Town, Guxian Town, Jia Ling Town, Chengzhao Town, Laiyuan Town, Xiliuzhi Township, Yukou Township), 160 administrative villages, 289 natural villages, and a provincial development zone. By 2017, the county has a total area of 854 square kilometers and a resident population of 274700. In 2016, the county's GDP reached 7.1737 billion yuan, an increase of 5.9 percent over the previous year. Of this total, the added value of the primary industry was 1.71842 billion yuan, up 2.9%, accounting for 24.0% of the GDP, and the added value of the secondary industry was 1.95003 billion yuan, up 7%.
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