The Oak Run 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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Oak Run’s center stands about 1,620 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 890 ft to 2,330 ft, a difference of 1,440 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Snow Mountain, about 6,790 ft, 13 miles east-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary volcanic flow rocks, unit 1 (Cascade Volcanic Field) (andesite, basalt), from the Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 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 4×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Andesite. Age: Late Oligocene to Pleistocene, 2 to 24 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Andesite, basalt. Age: Late Oligocene to Pleistocene, 2 to 24 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Andesite, basalt. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Mafic-volcanic, felsic-volcanic. Age: Permian to Jurassic, 145 to 260 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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.
A raindrop that lands in Oak Run reaches San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean by way of Oak Run Creek, Cow Creek and the Sacramento: about 300 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Oak Run; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
