• Mesa
  • Macun District

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.

Machun District, which belongs to Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, is located in the northwest of Henan Province and northeast of Jiaozuo City. Taihang in the north and the Yellow River in the south. Ma Village has a total area of 122 square kilometers. Among them, the area of cultivated land is 6133.33 hectares. The total population is 140000 (at the end of 2012), of which the rural population is 68000, with a natural population growth rate of 4.46 ‰. In 2013, the gross domestic product of Macun area reached 1.33 billion yuan. Machun District has more than 10 places of interest, of which the Zhaozhanggong site is a Longshan cultural site and the Guicheng village site is a late ancient Yangshao cultural site, all of which are provincial cultural relics protection units.
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