• Mesa
  • Xinhua 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.

Xinhua County, Loudi City, Hunan Province belongs to the county. Located in 27 °31 N & #39;-28 °14 E, 110 °45 °M ü 111 °41 °E, located in the middle of Hunan Province, the middle reaches of Zijiang River, the southeast foot of the northern section of Xuefeng Mountain (ancient Meishan). The area covers a total area of 3642 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 26 townships, 2 state-owned forest farms and 1 economic development zone, with a population of 1.5 million (2016). The territory is mostly hilly basins, belonging to the mid-subtropical monsoon humid climate, pleasant environment, known as "the treasure land of central Hunan". Xinhua is a key forest county with mineral resources such as coal, silicon, tungsten, arsenic, graphite, tin, lead, zinc, copper, antimony, magnesium, gold, kaolin and limestone. In September 2015, the Department of Land and Resources of Hunan Province promoted the reform of the economic system of counties directly administered by the province.
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