• Mesa
  • Xiuyu 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.

Xiuyu District (Putian County, Xinghua Prefecture) is located in the middle of the southeast coast of Fujian, across the sea from Taiwan, only 72 nautical miles away from Taichung Port. It was established with the approval of the State Council in February 2002. Xiuyu District belongs to Putian City, the people's Government of the District is stationed in Kuishi Town, and the district has jurisdiction over 11 towns, 1 farm and 1 administrative bureau. The land area is 390 square kilometers and the sea area is 4514.75 square kilometers. Putian dialect is widely used in Puxian dialect.
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