• Mesa
  • Hanshan 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.

Hanshan County, which belongs to Maanshan City, Anhui Province, is located on the north bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, east-central Anhui and the shore of Chaohu Lake. The total area is 1047 square kilometers. Hanshan has a history of more than 1300 years since the county was bought in the sixth year of Tang Wude (623). It is the hometown of Wu Chu in the Spring and Autumn period, known as Wu Tou and Chuwei. There are many tourist attractions in Hanshan, mainly Taihu Mountain and Huayang Cave, two national AAA scenic spots. By 2018, Hanshan County had 8 towns and 3 parks with a resident population of 395000, achieving a regional gross domestic product (GDP) of 17.358 billion yuan, of which the added value of the primary industry was 2.032 billion yuan, the secondary industry was 8.465 billion yuan, the tertiary industry was 6.86 billion yuan, and the proportion of the three industries was 11.749.
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