The Zebulon 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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Zebulon’s center stands about 860 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 770 ft to 940 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Dorster Mountain, about 1,280 ft, 10 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Sillimanite Schist, from the Precambrian to Paleozoic.
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 35×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gneiss, mica-schist, amphibolite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 9 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 4 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 4 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 3 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 1 mi of the line.
Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. 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 Zebulon reaches the Gulf of America by way of Elkins Creek, the Flint and the Apalachicola: about 400 river miles.
270 miles of the trip are on the Flint.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Zebulon; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
