• Mesa
  • Hutubi 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.

Hutubi County, which belongs to Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, is located in the north-central part of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, in the hinterland of Eurasia, on the southern edge of Junggar Basin, and 68 kilometers east of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region. Hutubi County is 258km long from north to south, with a maximum width of 52km from east to west and a total area of 9721.6 square kilometers. it has jurisdiction over six towns and one township: Hutubi Town, Dafeng Town, Qiergou Town, Shilidian Town, Yuanhucun Town, Wugongtai Town and Stone ladder Township. The county government is stationed in Hutubi town. At the end of 2012, Hutubi County has a total population of 217300, including Han, Kazak, Hui, Uygur and other 25 ethnic groups. In 2017, Hutubi County achieved a regional GDP of 15.76 billion yuan, an increase of 9.2% over the same period last year, and the general public budget income was 985 million yuan.
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