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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.

Jiangling County, which belongs to Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, is located in the central and southern part of Hubei Province, the west of Jianghan Plain, the north bank of the Jingjiang reach of the Yangtze River, the southeast suburb of Jingzhou City, bordering Jianli County and Qianjiang City in the east, and facing Gongan County across the Yangtze River in the west. Shishou City in the south and Shashou City in the north. Between longitude 112o 1252E-112o 44m 22 ", latitude 29o 54m 36"-30o 16045 "N, elevation 25.3mer 31.0m, distance from east to west 53.5km, distance from north to south 36.2km, total area 1048.74 square km. Jiangling has a long history. From the eighth year of King Zhouzhuang (689 BC), King Wen of Chu ascended the throne and moved the capital from Danyang (now the south city of five thousand meters north of Jingzhou) to the 29 year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin Dynasty (278 BC).
Airport In Jiangling County - Jingzhou Shashi Airport
Jingzhou Shashi Airport (Jingzhou Shashi Airport, IATA: SHS, ICAO: ZHJZ), referred to as "Jingzhou Airport", is located in Airport Road, Cenhe Town, Shashi District, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, China, 20 kilometers west of Jingzhou city center and west of Yuansha City The airport is 16 kilometers away and is a 4C-level domestic feeder airport      .
On October 8, 2018, Jingzhou Shashi Airport started construction   ; On October 20, 2020, the test flight of Jingzhou Shashi Airport was successful   ;January 30, 2021, Jingzhou Shashi Airport was officially opened to navigation, and Shashi Airport was officially closed   .
As of January 2021, the terminal building of Jingzhou Shashi Airport has an area of ​​13,799 square meters and is equipped with 5 boarding bridges; there are 5 C-class seats on the civil aviation platform, all of which are near the bridge; the runway is 2,600 meters long and wide. 45 meters; can meet the needs of annual passenger throughput of 700,000 passengers and cargo and mail throughput of 2,450 tons     .
In 2021, Jingzhou Shashi Airport will handle a total of over 442,319 passengers, ranking 135th in the country; 4,722 aircraft take-offs and landings, ranking 165th in the country   .
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