Deep Cut Guide

Biotitic gneiss, schist, and migmatite

Gneiss, schist & quartzite. Paleoproterozoic, about 2,500 to 1,600 million years old. 85 crags on this site have their map point on it.

What the map says

Locally contains minor hornblende gneiss, calc-silicate rock, quartzite, and marble. Derived principally from sedimentary rocks Lithology: biotite gneiss, schist, migmatite, minor gneiss, calc silicate schist, marble.

1:500,000 sheet: Horton and others, 2017, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052 (85 crags). A contact line at that scale is about 500 m wide on the ground.

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Eagle/Vail/Minturn/Red Cliff

Alpine Rock

Independence Pass

Canon City

10 Mile Canyon

Grand County / Fraser Valley

Estes Park Valley

CO Ice & Mixed

Gore Canyon

Grand Junction Area

Gunnison

South Platte

Steamboat Springs

Cataract Lake (Heeney, Colorado)

Equinox Gardens

Every mapped unit with a crag on it.