Deep Cut Guide

Basalt

Basalt & volcanic. Cenozoic, about 66 to 2.6 million years old. 1 crag on this site has its map point on it.

What the map says

Scoriaceous and vesicular lava capping Grand Mesa and Mount Callahan. Lithology: extrusive; mafic; basalt flows.

1:100,000 sheet: Day and others, 1999, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-0427 (1 crag). A contact line at that scale is about 100 m wide on the ground.

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Grand Junction Area

Every mapped unit with a crag on it.