• Mesa
  • Suyu 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.

Suyu District belongs to Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, with Shuyang and Siyang to the east, Yanghe New area to the south, Sucheng District to the west, and Xinyi to the north by the Yi River. Suyu is the east wing of "one body and two wings" of Suqian City, which is called "Pudong" of Suqian. It is located in the cross-radiation zone of coastal economic zone, riverside economic belt and Longhai economic belt, and in the center of Jiangsu-Shandong-Henan-Anhui-Huaihai Economic Zone. In November 2019, it was selected into the second batch of counties (districts) for the construction of a water-saving society.
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