The Zuni Pueblo 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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Zuni Pueblo’s center stands about 6,270 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 6,240 ft to 6,760 ft, a difference of 520 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Two Grey Hills, about 7,240 ft, 9 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium (unconsolidated), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 0.1 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 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, mudstone, conglomerate. Age: Middle Triassic to Late Triassic, 202 to 247 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 0.1 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 90 to 94 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 94 to 100 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Middle Jurassic, 164 to 175 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 90 to 94 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.
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 Zuni Pueblo reaches the Gulf of California by way of the Zu¿i, the Little Colorado and the Colorado: about 1,080 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Mead, Lake Mohave and Lake Havasu.
290 miles of the trip are on the Colorado.
Often dry. About 30% of the way is mapped as streams that run only after rain or snowmelt; the water makes the whole trip in floods.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Zuni Pueblo; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
