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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.

Xingshan District belongs to Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province, formerly known as Xingshan City, is the birthplace of Hegang City, is now a district of Hegang City. Xingshan District is located in the northeast of Hegang City, connected with Dongshan District in the east, Xiangyang District in the south, vegetable Garden Township in the west and Qingling Forest Farm in the north. As of 2012, Xingshan District has a total area of 26 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 4 streets with a total population of 60,000. In 2015, the GDP of Xingshan District reached 2.766 billion yuan.
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