The Oatman plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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Oatman’s center stands about 2,750 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,040 ft to 4,070 ft, a difference of 2,030 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Nutt, about 5,030 ft, 5 miles north-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Middle Miocene to Oligocene volcanic rocks (basalt, andesite, dacite), from the Middle Eocene to Late Miocene, 11 to 38 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 5×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Basalt, andesite, dacite. Age: Middle Eocene to Late Miocene, 11 to 38 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Conglomerate, sandstone. Age: Early Miocene to Pleistocene, 2 to 16 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
