• 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.

Zhuxi County, which belongs to Shiyan City, Hubei Province, is located in the Qinba Mountains at the junction of Hubei, Chongqing and Shaanxi provinces, Pingli, Zhenping and Xunyang in Shaanxi Province in the west, Wuxi County in Chongqing in the south and Zhushan County in the east, with a total area of 3279 square kilometers. Zhuxi has vertical and horizontal mountains and rivers, belonging to the humid monsoon climate in the northern subtropics. The Hanjiang River system in the Yangtze River Basin is an important water conservation area for the "South-to-North Water diversion" and the dividing line between the north and the south climate. The forest coverage rate is 76.8% and the vegetation coverage rate is 83.9%. The overall quality of the air environment in the territory has reached the first-class standard set by the state, and the number of excellent days has reached more than 320 days. There are 3310 species of vascular plants belonging to 1043 genera and 204families in the territory, which is praised as "the gene bank of animals and plants and the encyclopedia of biology" by the famous botanist Professor Wu Jianyu. Zhuxi is a mineral.
Airport In Zhuxi County - Shiyan Wudang Mountain Airport
Shiyan Wudangshan Airport (Shiyan Wudangshan Airport; IATA: WDS, ICAO: ZHSY) is located in Bailang Economic and Technological Development Zone, Shiyan City, Hubei Province, China, about 15 kilometers from the urban area, and about 25 kilometers from the Wudang Mountain Scenic Spot, a famous Taoist holy place in China. It is a 4C-level civil transport airport and a feeder airport in China.  
Shiyan Wudangshan Airport was officially completed and opened to navigation on February 5, 2016, and was named Shiyan Wudangshan Airport.  
According to information on the airport's official website in April 2019, Shiyan Wudangshan Airport has a terminal building, not T1 (domestic in China), with a total area of ​​16,400 square meters; a runway with a length of 2,600 meters; 7 parking spaces (2 Helicopter slots); can guarantee an annual passenger throughput of 1.2 million person-times, an annual cargo and mail throughput of 2,700 tons, and an annual aircraft take-off and landing of 16,173 sorties   . As of April 2019, a total of 17 domestic fixed routes have been opened in China, covering 26 cities   .
In 2018, the passenger throughput of Shiyan Wudangshan Airport was 1.1825 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 36.0%; the cargo and mail throughput was 0.5 million tons; 112 bits   .
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