• Mesa
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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.

Emin County is located in the northwest of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, the northwest edge of Junggar Basin, the center of Tacheng Basin, to the north to Kazakhstan, to the south to Toli County and Youcheng Karamay, to the east to Buxel Mongolia Autonomous County, and to the west to Tacheng and Yumin County. In 2013, Emin County covers an area of 9532 square kilometers, with 4 towns, 7 townships and 6 farms, and there are seven agricultural and animal husbandry regiments in Xinjiang production and Construction Corps. In 2013, Emin County had 220000 people from 25 ethnic groups, including Han, Kazakh, Uygur and Mongolian.
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Xinjiang Yemili Ski Resort has a good environment and few tourists, and the price is reasonable. The night course only costs 9 yuan
Enjoy flowers in spring, play in water in summer, look at leaves in autumn, and play in snow in winter. This is the travel concept of many people, so
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