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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.

Zezhou County, which belongs to Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, was originally a suburb of Jincheng City, but it was changed to its present name in 1996. Located in the southeastern tip of Shanxi Province, the southernmost part of Taihang Mountain, the intersection of Shanxi and Henan provinces, since ancient times is the key point of Sanjintong to the Central Plains, known as "Hedong Pinghan, southern Hebei Xiong Town". Zezhou County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, surrounds the urban area of Jincheng City, adjacent to Gaoping City, Jincheng City in the north, Lingchuan County, Jincheng City in the east, Yangcheng and Qinshui County in Jincheng City in the west, and Jiyuan and Jiaozuo in Henan Province in the south. It is 62.75km wide from east to west and 58.85km from north to south, with a total area of 2023 square kilometers and an area of 725000 mu of cultivated land, accounting for about 1.2 per cent of the total area of Shanxi. It has jurisdiction over 14 towns, 3 townships, 633 administrative villages, 140000 households and 526000 people (2008), of which the agricultural population is 45.
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