• Mesa
  • Luobei 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.

Luobei County, which belongs to Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province, is located in the northeast of Heilongjiang Province, at the confluence of the southern foot of Xiaoxingan Mountains and Sanjiang Plain, with geographical coordinates of 130 °01 in the east and 47 °12 in the north. The northeast of the county is bounded by Heilongjiang across the river from Russia, and the border is 146.5 kilometers long. It is connected with Jiayin County in the northwest, Hegang City and Tangyuan County in the west and Suibin County in the east. In 2011, the GDP of Luobei County reached 2.6 billion yuan, an increase of 25.3% over the same period in 2010. In 2012, Luobei County had jurisdiction over 6 towns, 2 townships, 1 ethnic township and 63 administrative villages. With a total population of 230000 and a total area of 6784 square kilometers, the county people's government is stationed in Fengxiang Town. October 22, 2018
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