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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.

Yangxin County, which belongs to Binzhou City, Shandong Province, is a county-level administrative district, which is located in the center of the development of the Yellow River Delta plain. Han Xin, a famous general of the Han Dynasty, got his name from the Yang of the Gudu River in Yanfuan Qi. Yangxin County, with a total area of 793square kilometers and a population of 450000 (2010), has jurisdiction over two subdistrict offices, seven towns and one township. Yangxin is the first batch of comprehensive reform pilot counties in China, and it is the pilot area of reform and opening up in Shandong Province. Yangxin is China's high-quality wheat production base county, China's advanced scientific and technological work county, China's top 100 animal husbandry county, China stainless steel production base county.
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