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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.

Xiuzhou District, which is under the jurisdiction of Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, is the birthplace of Communist Party of China and one of the main urban areas where the Chinese revolutionary red ship set sail. It is located in the golden hub of the Yangtze River Delta metropolitan area, bordering Shanghai in the east, Hangzhou in the west, Hangzhou Bay in the south and Suzhou in the north. It is the geometric center of the core area of the Yangtze River Delta. Xiuzhou District has a total area of 547.78 square kilometers, including 386800 mu of permanent basic farmland and 462400 mu of arable land, with an agricultural insurance rate of 83.65%. The household registration population is 405000 (including 197000 urban population and 208000 rural population) and 620000 permanent residents (large caliber). In 2018, the regional GDP reached 39.264 billion yuan (small caliber, the same below), an increase of 6.2%; finance
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