The Keeler 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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Keeler’s center stands about 3,600 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,550 ft to 5,230 ft, a difference of 1,680 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is New York Butte, about 10,600 ft, 12 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary alluvium and marine deposits (coarse-detrital), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 3×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Late Devonian to Permian, 273 to 384 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Middle Devonian to Late Devonian, 359 to 394 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granodiorite. Age: Permian to Tertiary, 2.6 to 260 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone, limestone. Age: Carboniferous to Triassic, 202 to 324 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic. Age: Triassic to Cretaceous, 66 to 252 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 1 smaller unit along the line are not listed.
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.
Rain that falls on Keeler runs straight into Owens Lake. Owens Lake has no outlet to the sea: the water leaves only by evaporating or soaking into the ground.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Keeler; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
