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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.

Yuzhou City, referred to as "Jun", in ancient times known as "Xiayi", "Yangzhai", "Junzhou", Henan Province under the jurisdiction of county-level cities. Yuzhou City, with a total area of 1461 square kilometers and a central urban area of 114square kilometers, is located in the middle of Henan Province and is the central city on the southern edge of the Central Plains urban agglomeration. at the end of 2016, Yuzhou has a total population of 1.29 million and a resident population of 470000. Yuzhou is one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation, the capital of the Xia Dynasty, the first slave dynasty in China, the only producing area of Jun porcelain, one of the five famous porcelain in China, and one of the four distribution centers of traditional Chinese medicine in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is known as "Xia Capital", "Jun Capital" and "Medicine Capital". It was named as the first batch of famous historical and cultural cities in Henan Province in 2011 and the "hometown of Chinese Dayu Culture" in 2007.
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