The Verona 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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Verona’s center stands about 510 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 440 ft to 650 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Prospect Hill, about 1,770 ft, 13 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Clinton Group (shale), from the Silurian, 434 to 445 million years old.
The section below crosses 10 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 20×. 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 8 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Silurian, 434 to 445 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Siltstone, shale. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 428 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 425 to 428 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Middle Devonian, 388 to 394 million 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. 4 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 Verona reaches Lake Ontario by way of Drum Creek, the Oneida and the Oswego: about 75 river miles. From the lake it goes down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Lake on the way: Oneida Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Verona; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
