Deep Cut Guide

Fine-grained porphyritic phase

Mesoproterozoic, about 1,600 to 1,000 million years old. 6 crags on this site have their map point on it.

What the map says

Pink, fine- to medium-grained, massive porphyritic biotite granite with phenocrysts of spheroidal gray quartz, subhedral microcline, and oligoclase

1:100,000 sheet: Kellogg and others, 2008, USGS Geologic Investigations Series 3000 (6 crags). A contact line at that scale is about 100 m wide on the ground.

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South Platte

Every mapped unit with a crag on it.