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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.

Queshan County is located in the south of Henan Province, on the north bank of the Huaihe River, west of Tongbai and Funiu Mountains, overlooking the Huang-Huai Plain to the east, between Zhengzhou and Wuhan, known as "the hinterland of the Central Plains and the throat of Henan and Hubei". Queshan County belongs to Zhumadian City, named after Queshan, six miles southeast of the county seat. As of 2010, Queshan County has jurisdiction over 10 towns and 2 townships. Queshan County is a warm temperate continental monsoon climate, the county has machinery, chemical, mining-based industrial production system; rich in mineral resources, is the largest building materials production base in southern Henan. Reconfirm the national health county (township) in 2018. In November 2019, it was selected into the second batch of counties (districts) for the construction of a water-saving society.
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