• Mesa
  • Jinta 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.

Jinta County, which belongs to Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, is located on the northern edge of the middle part of Hexi Corridor, between longitude 97 °58'E and latitude 39 °47 °40 °59', with a total area of 18800 square kilometers. Jinta County is a typical temperate arid continental climate with cold winter, hot summer, large temperature difference, sufficient sunshine and large evaporation. As of 2017, it has jurisdiction over 5 towns, 5 townships and 1 urban community management committee, with 479 village groups and 4 urban communities in 89 administrative villages. As of 2017, the total population of Jinta County is 145600. Huishui County was set up in the second year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (121BC), which has a history of more than 2100 years. It was formerly known as Wang Zizhuang, named because Ju Quli, the eldest son of Beiliang, once established a herding village here.
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