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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.

Zaozhuang, a prefecture-level city of Shandong Province, is located in the south of Shandong Province, bordering Pingyi County, Fei County and Lanling County of Linyi City in the east, Tongshan District, Jiawang District and Pizhou City, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province in the south, Weishan County in Jining City in the west, and Weishan Lake in the north. Zoucheng City, Jining City in the north. Between longitude 116o 48km east and latitude 34 °27km, the width is 56 km from east to west and 96 km from north to south, with a total area of 4563 square km, accounting for 2.97% of the total area of Shandong Province. Zaozhuang, the city's resident, formed a village in the Tang and Song dynasties. It was named Zaozhuang because of its many jujube trees. It was officially used after the city was established in 1961. The terrain is high in the north and low in the south, high in the east and low in the west, tilting from northeast to southwest. The hills account for 54.6% of the total area, and the plains account for about 54.6% of the total area.
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