• Mesa
  • Tekes 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.

Tekes County, a county under the jurisdiction of Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, is located in the eastern part of the Tex Valley in the upper reaches of the Yili River. The county seat is 116 kilometers away from Yining City and 815 kilometers away from Urumqi. It is bordered by Gongliu County in the east and Gongliu County in the east, Hejing County in the east, Zhaosu County in the west, Baicheng County in the south and Chabuchal County in the north. The topography of the county is high from north to south and low from east to west, with Tianshan in the south, Tianshan in the north, and the Turks valley in the middle, tilting from west to east. The Tex River runs through the whole territory from west to east. Rich in mineral resources. The county has a total area of 8352 square kilometers and now has jurisdiction over 1 town, 7 townships, 6 farms and 1 beekeeping farm. The county is home to the Xinjiang military region Horse Farm, the 78th Regiment of the fourth Agricultural Division and Tianxi Bureau Tex Forest Farm. The total population in 2013 is 172000.
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