• Mesa
  • Suide 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.

Suide County, located in the north of Shaanxi Province, southeast of Yulin City, is located in the hilly and gully region of the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi. Suide County has jurisdiction over 4 townships and 12 towns and 661 administrative villages, with a total population of 359500 (2016). Suide has a long history and a collection of humanities, formerly known as "Shangjun Guyi". It is known as "famous state in the world", "famous state in Qin and Han Dynasty" and "dry wharf" in northern Shaanxi. In March 2019, it was listed as the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization district and county list. On May 7, 2019, the people's Government of Shaanxi Province approved Suide County to withdraw from the sequence of poor counties.
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