• 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.

Fugong County, which belongs to Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, is located in the Nujiang Gorge between Biluo Snow Mountain and Gaoligong Mountain in the middle of Hengduan Mountains in northwest Yunnan Province. It is bordered by Lanping Bai Pumi Autonomous County and Weixi Lisu Autonomous County in the east, Lushui City in the south, Myanmar in the west, and Gongshan Dulong Nu Autonomous County in the north. The border is 142.218 kilometers long. It is located between longitude 98 °41 "99 °02" east and latitude 26 °28 "27 °32 'north. The maximum vertical distance from north to south is 112 kilometers, and the maximum horizontal distance from east to west is 23 kilometers. As of the end of 2012, the total population was about 100000. In 2012, the total output value of Fogong County was 806.9 million yuan, an increase of 15%. According to information in September 2014, there is one under the jurisdiction of Fogong County.
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