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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.

Shanting District, which belongs to Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, is located in the northeast of Zaozhuang City, Zoucheng City in the north, Lanling County, Fei County and Pingyi County in the east, Tengzhou in the west, and the central district and Xuecheng District in the south. The geographical coordinates are: latitude 34 °54 °00 "- 35 °19 °20" north, longitude 117 °14 °00 "- 117 °44 °20" east. As of 2016, Shanting District has jurisdiction over 9 towns, 1 street, 268 administrative villages (communities), with a population of 528600, with a total area of 1019.2 square kilometers. In 2016, Shanting District completed a gross domestic product of 13.4 billion yuan, an increase of 3.32 billion yuan over 2011, with an average annual increase of 8.8%. Investment in fixed assets reached 12.87 billion yuan, an increase of 6.6 billion yuan over 2011, with an average annual increase of 1.
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