The Nageezi 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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Nageezi’s center stands about 6,940 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 6,660 ft to 7,040 ft, a difference of 380 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Huerfano Mountain, about 7,460 ft, 12 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Nacimiento Formation (sandstone, shale, conglomerate), from the Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 17×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone, shale, conglomerate. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 72 to 84 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Conglomerate-sandstone, shale. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 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 Nageezi reaches the Gulf of California by way of Kimbeto Wash, Escavada Wash, the Chaco, the San Juan and the Colorado: about 1,200 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Mead, Lake Powell, Lake Mohave and Lake Havasu.
Seldom reaches the sea. Dams and canals now take nearly all of the Colorado before its old delta in Mexico.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Nageezi; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
