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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.

Yanchi County, located in the east of Ningxia Hui Autonomous region, is a county under the jurisdiction of Yinnan region and a famous Tan sheep producing area in Ningxia. The border area between the agricultural and nomadic peoples of China in history. The county government is stationed in Huamachi town. County from southeast to northwest for the vast dry steppe and desert steppe, rich in "salt, fur, sweet licorice". Ningxia Tan Sheep, which is well-known at home and abroad, is the main economic source of Yanchi. There are more than 20 natural salt lakes in the north, east and southwest of the county, so it is named "salt pond". On December 7, 2016, Yanchi County was listed as the third batch of national comprehensive pilot areas for new urbanization. On September 29, 2018, the government of Ningxia Hui Autonomous region approved Yanchi County to withdraw from the sequence of poor counties. On October 22, 2018, he was selected as the first for the integrated development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas in 2018.
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