The Vega 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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Vega’s center stands about 4,030 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,960 ft to 4,050 ft, a difference of 90 ft: gently rolling country.
The section below crosses 4 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.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 18 mi of the line.
Conglomerate-sandstone. Age: Middle Triassic to Late Triassic, 208 to 247 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 12 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Clay, silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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.
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 Vega reaches the Gulf of America by way of Middle Alamosa Creek, Alamosa Creek, the Canadian, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,620 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Murray Lake and Ozark Lake.
620 miles of the trip are on the Canadian.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Vega; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
