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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.

Shufu County originally belongs to Shule Zhili Prefecture, that is, the affiliated place. The Uyghur language is called "Kashgar Kawna Xiehai", which means the old city of Kashgar. Also known as Tokzak, belongs to Kashgar in the early Qing Dynasty, the Western region Tu Zhi is called Toke Kursak, and the Western region Tongwen Zhi is interpreted as "Tuoke, full, and Kursak, big belly." The land is abundant, and the farmers can have enough to eat, hence the name. " That is, the place where one can have enough to eat means "the land is rich and the people are rich". Tokezak is now interpreted as "nine pieces of white land", which may be caused by the transformation of speech. Shufu County is under the jurisdiction of Kashgar City, Xinjiang. It is located in the southwest of Xinjiang Autonomous region, at the eastern foot of the Pamir Plateau and on the Kashgar Oasis on the western edge of the Tarim Basin. It has jurisdiction over 4 towns and 6 townships with a total population of 254000. There are Uygur, Han, Kirgiz, Mongolia, Hui and Kazakh.
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