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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.

Sanmenxia, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Henan Province, is located in the south golden triangle of the Yellow River at the junction of Henan, Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces. the landform is mainly mountains, hills and loess plateaus, belonging to a warm temperate continental monsoon semi-arid climate, with a total area of 10496 square kilometers. it has jurisdiction over 2 districts, 2 counties and 2 county-level cities, with a total population of 2.308 million in 2018. Sanmenxia is known as "five mountains, four ridges and one division of Sichuan", with Guanzhong in the west, Sanjin in the north and the Central Plains in the east. Longhai Railway, Lianhuo Expressway, National Highway 310, Zheng (Zhou) West ('an) High-speed Railway running from east to west, 209 National Highway, San (Menxia) Li (Sichuan) Expressway and Haoji Railway connect the north and south. It is a regional transportation hub city that connects Henan, Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, north to south, west to east. At the same time, Yangshao culture, Taoist culture and Guo culture are all
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