• Mesa
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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.

Suijiang County is located in the northeast edge of Yunnan Province, the south bank of Jinsha River, belonging to Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province. The geographic coordinates are 103 °47 east longitude 104 °16 mi, 28 °21 mi 28 °40 'north. Shuifu County in the east, Yanjin County in the south, Yongshan County in the southwest, and Pingshan County and Leibo County in Sichuan Province by the Jinsha River in the north; the east-west horizontal distance of the county is 48.5km, the north-south vertical distance is 36km, and the total area is 882square kilometers. the total population is 153091 (2010), and the county government is stationed in cities and towns. On April 30, 2019, the people's Government of Yunnan Province decided that Suijiang County would withdraw from the sequence of poor counties.
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