• Mesa
  • Luochuan 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.

Luochuan County is located in the middle of Shaanxi Province in China. In the south of Yan'an. (longitude 109 °13 "14"-109 °45 "47" east, latitude 35 °26 "29"-36 °04 "12" north. The county covers an area of 1886 square kilometers, with a resident population of 229600 (2016), mainly of the Han nationality. Qin and Han Zhiyi County, Wei and Jin Xiongnu entered the occupation, and the first eight years after the establishment of Qinyao County (393), Luochuan County was located in the north of Xianxian County, which got its name from Luoshui County. After several relocation, the name of the county is still in use today. In March 2019, it was listed as the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization district and county list.
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