The Mingus 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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Mingus’s center stands about 970 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 920 ft to 1,170 ft, a difference of 250 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Blue Hills, about 1,700 ft, 15 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Mingus Formation (black-shale), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 33×. 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: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sandstone, limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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. 2 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 Mingus reaches the Gulf of America by way of Gibson Creek, Palo Pinto Creek and the Brazos: about 650 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Granbury.
550 miles of the trip are on the Brazos.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Mingus; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
