• Mesa
  • County of Anyang

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.

Anyang County, which belongs to Anyang City, has the geographical coordinates of 113 °53mm east longitude, 114o 45km north latitude and 36 °21' north latitude. The county is adjacent to Tangyin County and Hebi City in the south, Cixian County, Linzhang County and Shexian County in Hebei Province to the north, Beiguan District and Wenfeng District to the west, and Neihuang County to the east. Anyang County is 73.75km long from east to west and 44 km wide from north to south. It covers an area of 1201 square kilometers and cultivated land covers an area of 69080 hectares. There are Xiuding Temple Tang Pagoda, Lingquan Temple Grottoes and other tourist attractions. The second batch of water-saving society construction up to the standard county (district).
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