• Mesa
  • Tibetan Autonomous County of Muli

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.

Muli Tibetan Autonomous County, which belongs to Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, is located on the southwest edge of Sichuan Province, crossing the Yalong River in the east, Gongga Mountain in the west, Jinsha River in the south and Ganzi Prefecture in the north, covering an area of 13000 square kilometers. The average elevation of the county is 3100 meters, with a relative height difference of 4488 meters. Muli County is an autonomous county dominated by Tibetans, including 21 ethnic groups including Yi, Han, Mongolian and Naxi. It is one of the only two Tibetan autonomous counties in the country, with a total population of 130000 in 2013. Muli has an important water conservation forest in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, which is one of the few primitive forest areas left in China. Muli has a high tourism taste because of its unique natural landscape and cultural customs, and has great potential to develop eco-tourism and leisure tourism. Muli has been known as the "Golden Kingdom" since ancient times.
Travel Sights In Tibetan Autonomous County of Muli
Travel Notes In Tibetan Autonomous County of Muli
Hiking Rock - My Longest Confession
Time flies, and time does not live. It has been three years in a blink of an eye, three years is enough to forget many things, and enough to change ma
Secret Realm__Muli
In early autumn, on the way to Lugu Lake, we took a detour to Tibetan Muli Autonomous County in Liangshan Prefecture. The scenery along the way is int
Walk into the mysterious Muli Wangguo-Kangwu Temple
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