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.
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Beatty’s center stands about 3,630 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,530 ft to 4,350 ft, a difference of 820 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is South Timber Peak, about 7,220 ft, 14 miles east-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium, undifferentiated (coarse-detrital, fine-detrital), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 9×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sedimentary, volcanic. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Volcanic. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone, quartzite. Age: Cambrian to Middle Ordovician, 459 to 497 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Early Mississippian to Middle Pennsylvanian, 307 to 359 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian to Early Devonian, 394 to 445 million years old. About 0.5 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 1 smaller unit along the line are not listed.
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 the desert basins of Owens Valley and Death Valley by way of the Amargosa: about 170 river miles. The desert basins of Owens Valley and Death Valley has no outlet to the sea: the water leaves only by evaporating or soaking into the ground.
Often dry. About 100% 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 Beatty; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
