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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.

Zhuanglang County, which belongs to Pingliang City, Gansu Province, is located in the middle of Gansu Province, at the west foot of Liupan Mountain, Huating County in the east, Jingning County in the west, Longde County and Jingyuan County in the north, and Zhangjiachuan County and Qinan County in the south. It is 56.37km long from east to west and 46.60km wide from north to south, with a total area of 1553.14 square kilometers (2013). It has jurisdiction over 1 street, 7 towns and 11 townships. The population is 449570 (2013). There are many natural and cultural landscapes, such as Yunya Temple, national forest park, Yunya Grottoes, provincial cultural relics protection units, Zijingshan, Chenjiadong, Wu Wang Cemetery, Guanshan Tianchi Chaonaoli, and so on. Zhuanglang County is a national terraced model county, a national advanced collective for soil and water conservation, a national cultural model county, a national economic forest construction demonstration county, a national ecological construction demonstration county, and a national cultural model county.
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