The Marina 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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88° on Nov. 15, 2008, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1968. Next is 82° in 2005.
Marina’s center stands about 40 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 350 ft, a difference of 340 ft: rolling country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pinyon Peak, about 2,210 ft, 14 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary sand deposits, unit 1 (coastal), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 9×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Miocene to Pleistocene, less than 23 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granodiorite, quartz-monzonite. Age: Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 2 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.
Rain that falls on Marina runs straight into the Pacific Ocean.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Marina; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Marina has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 71° in September; winter nights fall to about 43° in January. About 16 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Marina normally reaches 66° and falls to 46°. The record high is 85°, in 2008; the record low 36°, in 1971. The most rain on this date, 0.83 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1968 at Monterey Peninsul Airport, 7 miles south-southwest, 120 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
