• Mesa
  • Fukang City

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.

Fukang City is located in Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region and north-central Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region. It is located at the northern foot of the eastern section of Tianshan (Bogda Mountain) and the southern edge of Junggar Basin. It is located at 87 °46 miles east longitude, 45 degrees 45 degrees north latitude, Jimusar County in the east, Miquan City in the west, Urumqi County in the south, and Fuyun County in Altay region in the north. It is 76 kilometers wide from east to west. The longest point from north to south is 198 kilometers. It is 57 kilometers west from Urumqi, the capital of the autonomous region, and 93 kilometers from Changji, the capital of Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture. As of 2012, the total area is 11726 square kilometers, with a total population of 220000. There are 26 ethnic groups, including Han, Hui, Uygur and Kazakh. Under the jurisdiction of Tianchi Scenic spot and Fukang Industrial Park (Ganhezi
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