The Marquette 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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Marquette’s center stands about 680 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 620 ft to 970 ft, a difference of 350 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Maple Hill, about 1,060 ft, 12 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Manistique Formation (dolostone, limestone), from the Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 46×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 428 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Silurian, 428 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. 2 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 Marquette reaches Lake Huron by way of Nunns Creek: about 2 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Marquette; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
