The Paisley 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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Paisley’s center stands about 4,370 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,310 ft to 5,990 ft, a difference of 1,680 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Slide Mountain, about 7,760 ft, 9 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lacustrine and fluvial sedimentary rocks (clay, silt, sand), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 6×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Rhyolite, dacite. Age: Eocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 56 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel, silt. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Age: Early Miocene to Middle Miocene, 12 to 23 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Basalt, andesite. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 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. 3 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 Paisley reaches Lake Abert by way of Small Creek and the Chewaucan: about 25 river miles. Lake Abert has no outlet to the sea: the water leaves only by evaporating or soaking into the ground.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Paisley; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
