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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.

Xifeng County, Tieling City, Liaoning Province, is located at the eastern end of Tieling City, connected with Dongliao and Dongfeng counties in Jilin Province in the east, Qingyuan County in the south, Kaiyuan City in the west and southwest, and Jilin Province in the north. As of 2013, Xifeng County has a total area of 2686 square kilometers and a total population of 350000. It has jurisdiction over 12 towns and 6 townships. In 2013, the gross domestic product of Xifeng County reached 7.85 billion yuan, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 2.99 billion yuan, and the per capita disposable income of rural residents reached 10559 yuan. Xifeng County is not only the "hometown of Chinese deer", but also "the hometown of Chinese wild silkworms" and "national green food base county".
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