• 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.

Xiangdong District, which belongs to Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, is a district in the west of Pingxiang City, located on the border between Jiangxi and Hunan, Liling City, Hunan Province in the west, and Youxian County in Hunan Province in the southwest. It is the west gate of Jiangxi Province, known as "Ganxi Portal" and "Wu Chu Tong qu". The district covers an area of 858.76 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 8 towns, 2 townships and 1 street, 132 administrative villages (neighborhood committees), with a total population of 371240 (2018). The cultural heritage of eastern Hunan is profound, with the reputation of "hometown of folk painting", "hometown of brass music", "hometown of flowers and gongs" and "hometown of Nuo culture". In October 2018, it won the national leading area for the integration and development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas. On January 25, 2019, he was selected as the national "Ping an Agricultural Machinery" demonstration county in 2018. March 2019
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