• Mesa
  • Daying County,Suining City,Sichuan Province

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.

Daying County, which belongs to Suining City, Sichuan Province, is located in the middle of Sichuan Basin, west of the middle reaches of Fujiang River, between 30 °29mm north latitude 30 °44' and 105 °15km east longitude, with a total area of 703 square kilometers. Daying County is a subtropical humid monsoon climate zone with mild climate and four distinct seasons. As of 2018, Daying County has jurisdiction over 9 towns and 2 townships, and the county government is stationed in Penglai Town. By the end of 2017, Daying County had a registered population of 544000 and a resident population of 484500. In the first year of Qin II Hu Hai (209 BC), the county was under the jurisdiction of Yizhou, Guanghan County, Guanghan County and Yi County (Jianjiang Town, Santai County), while Daying County was under the jurisdiction of Yixian County. Suining City was established in 1985. Pengxi County belongs to Suining City, Sichuan Province. October 1997
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