• 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.

Yangxi County, founded in 1988, belongs to Yangjiang City, Guangdong Province, located on the southwest coast of Guangdong Province, facing Jiangcheng District to the east, Yangchun City to the north, Dianbai District to the west and Nanhai to the south. The total area of the county is 1455 square kilometers and the coastline is 126.6 kilometers long. 325 National Highway and Guang-Zhan Expressway run through the whole territory and form a sea and land transportation network with coastal highway, Yangyang railway and national first-class port Yangjiang port. Yangxi is located in the transitional zone between the south subtropics and the middle subtropics by the mountains and the sea. Yangxi County is the "China knife Center", "China plastic blowing Film Grade Color Masterbatch production Base", "National Jinjiang Oyster hanging and raising Standardization demonstration Zone", and "the hometown of Guangdong Folk songs." In 2014, the GDP of Yangxi County was 16.417 billion yuan. Yangxi County is a pilot project of a country with strong intellectual property rights.
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