• Mesa
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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.

Tonghua County, which belongs to Tonghua City, Jilin Province, is located in the south of Jilin Province, at the southern foot of Changbai Mountain, the middle reaches of Hunjiang River, the border with Baishan City in the east, Xinbin County and Huanren County in Liaoning Province in the west, Ji'an City in the south and Liuhe County in the north. Tonghua County is surrounded by Tonghua City with 10 towns and 5 townships under its jurisdiction, with a total of 160 administrative villages. It is a cultural county with a long history. It covers an area of 3726.5 square kilometers (2009), with a total population of 247225 (2010). In 2013, the GDP of Tonghua County reached 12.6 billion yuan. In August 2019, it was selected as a pilot county for the construction of medical community in a compact county. In October 2019, it was named as one of the top 100 green development counties and cities in 2019.
Airport In Tonghua County - Tonghua Sanyuanpu Airport
Tonghua Sanyuanpu Airport (Tonghua Sanyuanpu Airport, IATA: TNH, ICAO: ZYTN), located in Airport Road, Sanyuanpu Korean Town, Liuhe County, Tonghua City, Jilin Province, China, 41 kilometers southeast from the center of Tonghua, north from the county seat of Liuhe County 25.5 kilometers, a 4C-level military-civilian joint feeder airport (military and civil aviation fly in different fields)   .
On June 28, 2011, the construction of Tonghua Sanyuanpu Airport officially started; on December 4, 2013, the test flight of Tonghua Sanyuanpu Airport was successful; on June 18, 2014, Tonghua Sanyuanpu Airport officially opened for civil aviation business   .
According to the official website of the airport in April 2020, the terminal area of ​​Tonghua Sanyuanpu Airport is 3,034 square meters, and there are 4 seats on the civil aviation platform, including 3 class C seats and 1 class B seat; the runway is 2,300 meters long , 45 meters wide; can meet the annual passenger throughput of 194,000 person-times, cargo and mail throughput of 970 tons, and aircraft take-off and landing of 2,338 sorties.   .
In 2021, Tonghua Sanyuanpu Airport will handle a total of 127,603 passengers, a year-on-year increase of 29.2%, ranking 207th in the country; aircraft takeoffs and landings will reach 1,606, a year-on-year increase of 21.3%, ranking 221st in the country [twenty two]  .
From May 4, 2022, Tonghua Sanyuanpu Airport will be temporarily closed, and the specific resumption date will be adjusted in real time according to the construction progress [twenty one]  ; On July 1, the runway of Tonghua Airport has been closed for maintenance and reopened for use. [twenty four] 
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