The Phoenicia 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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Phoenicia’s center stands about 830 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 750 ft to 2,650 ft, a difference of 1,900 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Slide Mountain, about 4,180 ft, 7 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Oneonta Formation (shale), from the Middle Devonian to Late Devonian, 359 to 394 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 7×. 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, conglomerate, shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Middle Devonian to Late Devonian, 359 to 394 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 0.8 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 Phoenicia reaches New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Stony Clove Creek, Esopus Creek and the Hudson: about 150 river miles.
Lake on the way: Ashokan Reservoir.
100 miles of the trip are on the Hudson.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Phoenicia; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
