• Mesa
  • Jingyang 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.

Jingyang County, which belongs to Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, is located in the central part of Shaanxi Province, north of the Jinghe River, and the hinterland of "eight hundred miles of Qinchuan". It is the origin of the land of the people's Republic of China, the east is bordered by Sanyuan and Gaoling District, and the Weicheng District of Xianyang City is bordered by the Weicheng District of Xianyang City in the south. Jinghe River is opposite to Liquan County in the west, and to the north is adjacent to Beizhong Mountain, Chunhua and Sanyuan County, with a total area of 780 square kilometers. Jingyang is located in the north of the Jinghe River. In ancient times, Jingyang took the north of the water as the sun, hence its name, which was first seen in the Book of songs. Jingyang County is the place where biography of Liu Yi, one of the four major folklore in China, takes place, and many scholars, writers and poets have emerged successively, such as Wu Mi, Lei Lyriyan, Li Ruobing, Bai Sketch and so on. It is the strategic important place of the national new area "Xixian New area".
Travel Notes In Jingyang County