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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.

Quanjiao County, which belongs to Chuzhou City, Anhui Province, is located in the east of Anhui Province, on the south side of the Jianghuai Watershed, between Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province and Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province. Quanjiao County is located in the Jianghuai hilly area, with low mountains and hills in the northwest. The east and south are corrugated plains alternating with hills and hills, with sporadic distribution of residual hills and a subtropical monsoon climate with a total area of 1568 square kilometers. Quanjiao County was first built in the Western Han Dynasty, the name of the county evolved from the ancient country. Legend has it that the ancient Gao Yang established Gujiao Kingdom in Jiaolingshan (also known as Busan, in today's city). In the Spring and Autumn period, it was Chu Jiaoyi, and then Quanshi lived. Han Dynasty set up governance in Gujiaoyi County, hence the name Quanjiao County. Quanjiao is the cultural hometown of Chongwen and heavy education, which has given birth to many local scholars, the most famous of which is Wu Jingzi, the author of the Outer History of Scholars, which created a precedent of Chinese satirical novels. Quanjiao County
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