The Marine View 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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68° on Nov. 12, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1949. Next is 67° in 2021.
Marine View’s center stands about 1,150 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 970 ft to 1,670 ft, a difference of 700 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Wahatis Peak, about 2,650 ft, 15 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary nonmarine deposits (silt), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 18×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Silt. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, clay, volcanic. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Late Oligocene to Early Pliocene, 3.6 to 28 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Silt, sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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 Marine View reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of Potholes Reservoir, Lower Crab Creek and the Columbia: about 460 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Umatilla and Potholes Reservoir.
210 miles of the trip are on the Columbia.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Marine View; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Marine View has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 24° in January. About 8 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Marine View normally reaches 47° and falls to 29°. The record high is 67°, in 2021; the record low 4°, in 1955. The most rain on this date, 0.41 in, fell in 1963.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1949 at Moses Lake Grant County Airport, 16 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
