• Mesa
  • Hongwei District

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.

Hongwei District, the lower district of Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province, is located in the middle of Liaoning Province, the southeast suburb of Liaoyang City, 70 kilometers north from Shenyang and 30 kilometers south from Anshan. It is located in the center of the urban agglomeration in central Liaoning and is an important part of the high-tech industrial development belt of Liaodong Peninsula. As of 2011, Hongwei District has 4 streets and 2 towns. The total area is 149.8 square kilometers and the total population is 146000. In 2013, the GDP of Hongwei District reached 18.4 billion yuan, the public budget income was 1.06 billion yuan, the investment in fixed assets was 10.8 billion yuan, the total retail sales of consumer goods was 1.45 billion yuan, the per capita disposable income of urban residents was 23480 yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers was 13080 yuan.
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