• Mesa
  • Haifeng 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.

Haifeng County, which belongs to Shanwei City, Guangdong Province, is located in the southeast of Guangdong Province. Haifeng is derived from "Nanhai Wufeng" and is known as "the land of fish and rice". It is a famous historical and cultural city in Guangdong and one of the 13 red bases in the country. Xianhe six years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 331) established a county. In the ninth year of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty (1731), Shifan, Fang and Jikang were all set up in Lufeng County. Shanwei City was established in March 1988, and Haifeng designated seven coastal towns as urban areas. The county has jurisdiction over 16 townships, one economic development zone and three agricultural and forestry farms, with a total population of more than 800,000. Haifeng is also a famous hometown of overseas Chinese. There are 470000 overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In March 2019, it was on the list of the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization districts and counties.
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