• Mesa
  • Dongzhou District

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.

Dongzhou District is under the jurisdiction of Fushun City, Liaoning Province, located in the southeast of Fushun City, Liaoning Province, only 50 kilometers away from Shenyang, the capital city of Liaoning Province. It has jurisdiction over 2 townships and 2 towns, with a total area of 663.7 square kilometers, accounting for half of the urban area of Fushun. At present, the resident population is 313000. There are 20 ethnic groups, including Han nationality, Manchu nationality, Hui nationality, Korean nationality and Xibo nationality. In 2011, Dongzhou District's GDP grew at an average annual rate of 22.7%, social output value at an annual rate of 23%, total tax at an average annual rate of 20%, and fiscal revenue at an average annual rate of 15%.
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