• Mesa
  • Linze 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.

Linze County, which belongs to Zhangye City, Gansu Province, is located in the middle of Hexi Corridor, Gansu Province, between 99 °51-#39;-100 °30-#39;, 38 °57-#39;-39 °42-#39;. It is bordered by Ganzhou District, Zhangye City in the east, Gaotai County in the west, Qilian Mountain in the south and Sunan Yugu Autonomous County in the south, and Alashan right Banner in Inner Mongolia Autonomous region in the north, with a total area of 2729 square kilometers. As of 2010, Linze County has jurisdiction over 7 towns, a total of 71 administrative villages, with a total population of 150294 (2013), including Han, Hui, Tibetan, Mongolian, Yugur and other 11 ethnic groups. In 2017, Linze County achieved a gross domestic product (GDP) of 5.15 billion yuan, compared with 2016
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