Gneiss
Gneiss, schist & quartzite. Paleoproterozoic, about 2,500 to 1,600 million years old. 14 crags on this site have their map point on it.
What the map says
Composed primarily of gray medium-grained foliated gneiss, consisting mainly of quartz, plagioclase, and biotite, and foliated micaceous schist. Includes large areas of migmatite and migmatitic gneiss near major bodies of Pikes Peak Granite, Silver Plume Quartz Monzonite, and Boulder Creek Granodiorite, as well as garnet, sillimanite, and cordierite-bearing gneisses.
1:100,000 sheet: Trimble and others, 2003, U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series I-856-H (14 crags). A contact line at that scale is about 100 m wide on the ground.
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Golden
- Tiers of Zion68 routes and 2 boulder problems · Lookout Mountain Road · 7,002 ft
- The Sports Wall16 routes · Clear Creek Canyon · 5,952 ft · gneiss and schist (another source)
- AAA Crag12 routes · Clear Creek Canyon · 6,058 ft · gneiss and schist (another source)
- Lookout Mountain Crag12 routes · Lookout Mountain Road · 6,403 ft
- The Stumbling Block9 routes · Clear Creek Canyon · 6,280 ft · gneiss and schist (another source)
- New Hipster Rock8 routes · Clear Creek Canyon · 6,089 ft · gneiss and schist (another source)
- Point Break7 routes · Clear Creek Canyon · 6,448 ft · gneiss and schist (another source)
- Crimson Tide Wall6 routes · Lookout Mountain Road · 6,201 ft
- Bumbling Stock3 routes · Clear Creek Canyon · 6,252 ft · gneiss and schist (another source)
- East Side of Tunnel 12 routes and 1 boulder problem · Clear Creek Canyon · 5,779 ft · gneiss and schist (another source)
- 268 Wall2 routes · Clear Creek Canyon · 6,791 ft · gneiss and schist (another source)
- The Blonde Formation2 routes · Clear Creek Canyon · 5,938 ft · gneiss and schist (another source)
- Ghost Crag1 route · Clear Creek Canyon · 5,835 ft · gneiss and schist (another source)