• 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.

Xihe District, Fuxin City, Liaoning Province, is located in the west of Liaoning Province, around Fuxin City, bordering Fuxin County, 170 kilometers southeast of Shenyang and 111 kilometers southwest of Jinzhou. The north faces the Inner Mongolia Autonomous region. As of 2009, Xihe District has a total area of 126.46 square kilometers, with an urban area of 14.66 square kilometers, with a total population of 197000, including 157000 in urban areas, 40, 000 in rural areas, 178000 in non-agricultural areas and 19000 in agriculture. It has four streets and one town. In 2013, the GDP of Xihe District reached 4.5 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 30%; the public budget revenue of 440 million yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 52.3%; and the social investment in fixed assets reached 4.5 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 46.8%.
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