Deep Cut Guide

Amphibolite and quartzite

Gneiss, schist & quartzite. Paleoproterozoic, about 2,500 to 1,600 million years old. 1 crag on this site has its map point on it.

What the map says

Gray to dark-gray, interlayered amphibolite, hornblende gneiss, biotite-hornblende-plagioclase gneiss, and subordinate calc-silicate gneiss and quartzite. Mapped only in Indian Hills 7.5-minute quadrangle (Bryant and others, 1973), where it forms a structurally overlying carapace to two antiformal bodies of quartz-feldspar gneiss (Xf). One U-Pb zircon age on a quartz-rich layer in a hornblende-gneiss sequence from near Phillipsburg is 1,773±4 Ma (W.R. Premo, unpub. data, 2006), which is minimum age of deposition of the quartz-rich protolith

1:100,000 sheet: Kellogg and others, 2008, USGS Geologic Investigations Series 3000 (1 crag). A contact line at that scale is about 100 m wide on the ground.

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Morrison/Evergreen/Littleton

Every mapped unit with a crag on it.