• 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.

Gejiu City is a municipality under the jurisdiction of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China, which is located between 102 °54'E and 103 °25'E and 23 °01'N 23 °36'. "Gejiu" is evolved from the transliteration of "fruit work" in the Yi language, which means a place to grow buckwheat and eat buckwheat. Gejiu is 280 kilometers away from the provincial capital Kunming and 200 kilometers from Vietnam. The city has a land area of 1587 square kilometers, with a total population of 453300, of which the urban population is 309500, the level of urbanization is 68.30%, the urban built-up area is 12 square kilometers, and the urban resident population is 180000. There are more than 120000 ethnic minorities living in Yi, Zhuang, Hui, Miao, Dai and Hani. Gejiu is a kind of metallurgy which mainly produces tin and produces lead, zinc, copper and other non-ferrous metals.
Travel Notes In Gejiu
The display of tin industry, inch-gauge railway, and small trains, and the scenery by the Gejiujin Lake in Yunnan Province are distinctive
Jinhu Lake, also known as Gejiu Lake, is the city center and golden treasure land of Gejiu City, Yunnan Province. When you arrive in Gejiu, you must v