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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.

Xinxing County, which belongs to Yunfu City, Guangdong Province, is located in the west-central part of Guangdong Province, southeast of Yunfu City, adjacent to the Pearl River Delta, 140km away from the provincial capital Guangzhou, with a total area of 1523 square kilometers. It is 100 kilometers away from the nearest point of the ocean and belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate zone. Xinxing County Sanmao Railway, S276, S113 lines run through the whole territory, in the "Pearl River Delta one-hour economic circle." The total mileage of county highway is 962.908 km. It has jurisdiction over 12 towns, 199 villages (communities) and 1077 natural villages in 2018. In 2016, there were 492700 registered residents and 450100 permanent residents, as well as more than 150000 overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. It is one of the hometown of overseas Chinese in Guangdong Province and belongs to the Cantonese dialect area. Xinxing County is the industrial base of stainless steel products in China.
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