• 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.

Guangze County (ancient belongs to Shaowu Guangze County) is located in the northwest of Fujian Province, the northern section of Wuyi Mountains and the source of Futun River in the upper reaches of Minjiang River. It is adjacent to Lichuan, Zixi, Guixi and Qianshan in Jiangxi and Shaowu, Jianyang and Wuyishan in Nanping. Yingxia Railway and National Highway 316 enter Fujian by luster, and Shaoguang Expressway is completed and opened to traffic. The county has a total area of 2240 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 8 townships (towns) and 90 village (neighborhood) committees with a total population of 164300. It is a provincial key county for poverty alleviation and development, a provincial civilized county, a provincial garden county, a provincial urbanization pilot county, a provincial grain-producing county, a general transfer payment county, a key old base county and a former central Soviet area county. In 2017, the GDP of the region reached 9.11 billion yuan. In Guangze County, there are continuous mountains, high mountains and deep valleys, with peaks above kilometer.
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