• 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.

Tangyin County, which belongs to Anyang City, Henan Province, is a thousand-year-old county named by the United Nations. Tangyin County is the famous "township of three saints" with convenient transportation. Within a radius of 250 kilometers, there are four provincial capitals of Zhengzhou, Shijiazhuang, Jinan and Taiyuan, which are the commodity distribution centers of Henan, Hebei, Shandong and Jin provinces. Beijing-Guangzhou Railway Jinzhong-South Railway connects north, south, west and east, and the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway and National Highway 107 crisscross in the territory. Tangyin County is located in the Piedmont zone where the North China Plain meets the Taihang Mountains, bordering Anyang County and Anyang Wenfeng District and Longan District in the north and east to the east.
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