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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.

Shuangtaizi District, which belongs to Panjin City, Liaoning Province, is located in the south of Songliao Plain, the lower reaches of Liao River and the coast of Bohai Sea. The center is located in longitude 121 °2 "122 °30" east and latitude 40 °39 "40 °37 'north. Shuangtaizi District has a total area of 121square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 8 streets and 2 towns with a total population of 220000 (2015). By 2014, the GDP of Shuangtaizi District had reached 15.03 billion yuan. Shuangtaizi District has Liaohe Forest of Steles, Lakeside Park and other scenic spots. Chen Baoku, current secretary of the Shuangtaizi District CPC Committee, Zhang Guojun, chairman of the standing Committee of the District people's Congress, and Li Jifeng, the district mayor. On November 14, 2019, Shuangtaizi District was rated as the third batch of national ecological civilization construction demonstration areas by the Ministry of Ecological Environment.
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