The Blandford 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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Blandford’s center stands about 1,440 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 690 ft to 1,540 ft, a difference of 850 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Becket Mountain, about 2,180 ft, 14 miles northwest.
The section below crosses 11 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 11×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Arkose, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Late Triassic, 202 to 237 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Gneiss, mica-schist. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Pelitic-schist, granofels. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granofels, schist. Age: Early Ordovician to Middle Ordovician, 471 to 487 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. 5 smaller units 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 Blandford reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Falls Brook, the Little River, the Westfield and the Connecticut: about 100 river miles.
75 miles of the trip are on the Connecticut.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Blandford; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
