The Bleecker 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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Bleecker’s center stands about 1,500 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,000 ft to 1,970 ft, a difference of 970 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Three Ponds Mountain, about 3,010 ft, 12 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Biotite-quartz-plagioclase gneiss, amphibolite, and related migmatite (biotite-gneiss), from the Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old.
The section below crosses 12 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.
Black-shale. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Charnockite, gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 6 smaller units 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 Bleecker reaches New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean by way of West Stony Creek, the Sacandaga and the Hudson: about 270 river miles.
Lake on the way: Great Sacandaga Lake.
230 miles of the trip are on the Hudson.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bleecker; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
