The Sorrento 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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Sorrento’s center stands about 50 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 270 ft, a difference of 270 ft: rolling country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Cadillac Mountain, about 1,520 ft, 9 miles south-southwest.
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 37×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Alkali-feldspar-granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Siltstone, phyllite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Ordovician, 445 to 1,000 million years old. About 1.0 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 0.7 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.
Rain that falls on Sorrento runs straight into the Atlantic Ocean.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Sorrento; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
