• Mesa
  • Gêrzê 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.

Gaize County, which belongs to the Tibet Autonomous region, is located in northwest Tibet, the eastern part of Ali region and the hinterland of the northern Tibetan plateau. It is connected with Shuanghu County and Nima County in Naqu City in the east, Cuoqin County in the southeast, Zhongba County in Xigaze City in the south, Geji County and Ritu County in the west, and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region in the north by the Kunlun Mountains. It is 450km long from east to west and 670km wide from north to south, with a total area of 135600 square kilometers. It is the largest pure animal husbandry county in Ali, accounting for about 1/3 of the total area of Ali. In 2011, Gaize County has a total population of 22000. Gaize County has jurisdiction over 1 town and 6 townships: Gaize Town, Wuma Township, Xianqian Township, Mami Township,
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