• 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.

Weining Yi Hui and Miao Autonomous County, which is under the jurisdiction of Guizhou Province, is the largest ethnic autonomous county in Guizhou Province. It is located in the northwest of Guizhou Province, adjoining Yunnan Province in the north, west and south. With an area of 6295 square kilometers, the county government is stationed in Caohai Town. It has jurisdiction over 6 streets, 19 towns, 15 townships and 1 nationality township. In 2016, the resident population of Weining Yi Hui and Miao Autonomous County was 1.2837 million, an increase of 6900 over the end of 2015. The central border of Weining Yi Hui and Miao Autonomous County is open and smooth, surrounded by low, staggered peaks and ravines, and rivers flow, which is the source of the four rivers. It is a subtropical monsoon humid climate with annual sunshine hours of 1812 hours, frost-free period of 180days, annual rainfall of 926mm, small annual temperature difference, large daily temperature difference and warm winter.
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