Deep Cut Guide

Felsic and hornblendic gneisses, either separate or interlayered

Gneiss, schist & quartzite. Paleoproterozoic, about 2,500 to 1,600 million years old. 37 crags on this site have their map point on it.

What the map says

Includes metabasalt, metatuff, and interbedded metagraywacke; locally contains interlayered biotite gneiss. Derived principally from volcanic rocks Lithology: gneiss, minor metabasalt, metagraywacke.

1:500,000 sheet: Horton and others, 2017, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052 (37 crags). A contact line at that scale is about 500 m wide on the ground.

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10 Mile Canyon

Steamboat Springs

Canon City

Wet Mountains, The

Alpine Rock

CO Ice & Mixed

Durango

Frisco Boulders

Gunnison

Leadville

Every mapped unit with a crag on it.