Deep Cut Guide

Dakota and Morrison Fms

Mesozoic, about 164 to 91 million years old. 3 crags on this site have their map point on it.

The map groups these named formations into this unit: Dakota Formation, Morrison Formation.

What the map says

The sheet gives no description for this unit. Lithology: sandstone, shale, mudstone, minor claystone.

1:500,000 sheet: Horton and others, 2017, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052 (3 crags). A contact line at that scale is about 500 m wide on the ground.

Served by Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0). The wording is the map's own, quoted as a fact about the mapped unit, not about any one wall.

Alpine Rock

Breckenridge

Keystone a.k.a. Montezuma

Every mapped unit with a crag on it.