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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.

Shaxian (ancient belongs to Shaxian of Yanping Prefecture) the ancient name is Shayang, abbreviated as Shayang. Belonging to Sanming City, Fujian Province, it is located in the north-central part of Fujian Province, the lower reaches of Shaxi, a tributary of Minjiang River, between Nanping and Sanming City, between 26 °06 °N and 117 °32 °E, 118 °06'E, from Nanping to Fuzhou in the east, from Sanming to Xiamen in the west, and from Zhejiang and Jiangxi to the Central Plains and North China in the north. It has been an important commodity distribution center in northwest Fujian since ancient times. The famous Hakka historical and cultural hometown of the southward migration of the Central Plains in history. Since the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty, Wuhu chaotic China, Yongjia difficult, the Central Plains Yellow River Basin Heluo area of the Chinese Han nationality continued to move southward, many large-scale southward into Fujian. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty (379), the sand source land of Nanxiang, Yanping County (that is, the ancient county village in the east of Shaxian County) was first established, and the garrison was upgraded during the reign of Yixi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (405).
Airport In Sha County - Sanming Sha County Airport
Sanming Shaxian Airport (Sanming Shaxian Airport, IATA: SQJ, ICAO: ZSSM), located in the North District of Jinguyuan, Shaxian District, Sanming City, Fujian Province, China, about 32 kilometers away from the center of Sanming, is a 4C-level civil transport airport   .
Sanming Shaxian Airport was officially completed and opened to navigation on March 7, 2016; it was named Sanming Shaxian Airport   .
According to information on the airport's official website in June 2019, Sanming Shaxian Airport has a terminal building of T1 (domestic in China) with a total area of ​​11,700 square meters; there is a runway with a length of 2,600 meters and 5 parking spaces   . As of October 2020, 9 domestic cities in China have been opened.  
In 2020, due to the impact of the global epidemic, the passenger throughput of Sanming Shaxian Airport was 249,700, a year-on-year decrease of 2.3%; the cargo and mail throughput was 1,000 tons, a year-on-year increase of 259.2%; the number of takeoffs and landings was 3,000, a year-on-year increase of 5.1% %; respectively ranked 177th, 159th and 190th in China   .
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