Deep Cut Guide

Hermosa Fm

Pennsylvanian, about 314 to 304 million years old. 9 crags on this site have their map point on it.

What the map says

Arkosic sandstone, conglomerate, shale, and limestone; gypsum and salt in Paradox Member present in salt anticlines near Utah border Lithology: arkose, conglomerate, shale, minor limestone, gypsum.

1:500,000 sheet: Horton and others, 2017, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052 (9 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.

Ouray vicinity (rock)

Every mapped unit with a crag on it.