• Mesa
  • Daocheng County

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.

Daocheng County is located in the southwest edge of Sichuan Province, in the south of Ganzi Prefecture. Located in the southeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, east of the Hengduan Mountains. Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture belongs to Kangba Tibetan area. Daocheng County spans 27 °58 N & #39;~29 °30 & #39;, 99 °56 E & #39;~100 °36 & #39;, 174km from north to south and 63km from east to west, bordering Jiulong County in the east, Xiangcheng County in the west, Litang County in the north, Muli Tibetan Autonomous County in the south and Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan in the southwest. By the end of 2011, Daocheng County had an area of 7323 square kilometers, including 12 townships, 2 towns, 2 communities and 124. at the end of 2011, the total population was 32450, including Tibetans.
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