The Beatty 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.
Partly cloudy
Mostly sunny
Partly cloudy
Mostly cloudy
Chance of showers
Chance of showers
Chance of showers
Beatty’s center stands about 1,470 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,350 ft to 1,510 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Granite-rich migmatite, from the Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 62×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Migmatite. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Biotite-schist, migmatite. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Metabasalt, greenstone. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Amphibole-schist, gneiss. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 0.5 mi of the line.
Syenite, monzodiorite, granodiorite. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 0.3 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
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 Beatty reaches Hudson Bay by way of Black Creek, the Vermilion, the Rainy, the Winnipeg and the Nelson: about 1,060 river miles. Past the border it runs north through Canada to Hudson Bay.
Lakes on the way: Lake of the Woods, Rainy Lake, Vermilion Lake and Lake Winnipeg.
400 miles of the trip are on the Nelson.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Beatty; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
