The Beatrice 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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Beatrice’s center stands about 1,310 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,240 ft to 1,360 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Chase Group (limestone, shale), from the Permian, 252 to 299 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone, shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 6 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 Beatrice reaches the Gulf of America by way of Indian Creek, the Big Blue, the Kansas, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,810 river miles.
Lake on the way: Tuttle Creek Lake.
1,170 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Beatrice; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
