The Zion 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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Zion’s center stands about 130 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 70 ft to 150 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Bear Bluff Formation (sand, limestone), from the Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 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.
Sand, limestone. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Limestone, sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 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 Zion reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Maidendown Swamp, the Little Pee Dee, the Great Pee Dee, Schooner Creek and the Waccamaw: about 100 river miles.
65 miles of the trip are on the Little Pee Dee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Zion; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
