The Amorita 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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85° on Nov. 12, 1894, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 85° in 2016.
Amorita’s center stands about 1,210 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,180 ft to 1,240 ft, a difference of 60 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Terrace Deposits (coarse-detrital, fine-detrital), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. 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, less than 2.6 million years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, siltstone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, siltstone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 0.2 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.
Amorita has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. About 30 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Kiowa, 13 miles west-northwest, 120 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
