The Vivian 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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Vivian’s center stands about 260 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 170 ft to 320 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Delaney Mount, about 480 ft, 14 miles east-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Wilcox Group (undifferentiated) (sand, clay, lignite), from the Paleocene, 56 to 66 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 64×. 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, clay, lignite. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Silt, clay. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Clay, silt. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.6 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 Vivian reaches the Gulf of America by way of Black Bayou Lake, Black Bayou, Twelvemile Bayou, Cross Bayou, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 440 river miles.
Lake on the way: Black Bayou Lake.
260 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Vivian; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
