The Marquand 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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Marquand’s center stands about 580 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 540 ft to 880 ft, a difference of 340 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Matthews Mountain, about 1,450 ft, 11 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Eminence Dolomite, Potosi Dolomite (dolostone), from the Cambrian, 487 to 497 million 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 22×. 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: Cambrian, 487 to 497 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone, chert. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Rhyolite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Dolostone, shale, siltstone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 497 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.
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 Marquand reaches the Gulf of America by way of Whitener Creek, the Upper Castor, the Castor River Diversion Channel and the Mississippi: about 1,100 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Marquand; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
