The Manville 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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Manville’s center stands about 5,250 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 5,210 ft to 5,520 ft, a difference of 310 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Lone Tree Hill, about 6,060 ft, 7 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lower Miocene and Upper Oligocene rocks or rocks equivalent to Upper and Lower Miocene rocks and White River Formation (sandstone, siltstone, claystone), from the Late Oligocene to Late Miocene, 5.3 to 28 million years old.
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 15×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone, siltstone, claystone. Age: Late Oligocene to Late Miocene, 5.3 to 28 million years old. About 19 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous to Permian, 252 to 324 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Claystone, conglomerate. Age: Late Eocene to Early Oligocene, 31 to 35 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Late Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 384 million years old. About 0.6 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 Manville reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Niobrara, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 2,530 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lewis and Clark Lake.
1,170 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Manville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
