• Mesa
  • Fatkong,Fogang 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.

Fogang County, Xiazhong County, Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, located in the middle of Guangdong Province, on the edge of the Pearl River Delta, is a mountainous county, between longitude 113 °17028 "~ 113 °470042" east and latitude 23 °390057 "~ 24 °070015" north. It is adjacent to Conghua, Xinfeng, Yingde and Qingyuan City. The topography slopes from northeast to southwest, with low mountains, hills, valleys and plains crisscross, covering an area of 1295 square kilometers, with a registered population of 320700. There are many prehistoric cultural sites in Fogang, including the ancient kilns of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the bronze swords of the Spring and Autumn period, and the ancient roads of the Tang and Song dynasties. In 2014, the gross domestic product of Fogang County was 9.31 billion yuan, an increase of 12%, ranking among the highest in the city.
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