Deep Cut Guide

Leadville Limestone, Williams Canyon Limestone , Manitou Limestone, and Sawatch Quartzite

Gneiss, schist & quartzite. Paleozoic, about 500 to 341 million years old. 35 crags on this site have their map point on it.

The map groups these named formations into this unit: Leadville Limestone, Williams Canyon Limestone, Manitou Limestone, Sawatch Quartzite.

What the map says

The sheet gives no description for this unit. Lithology: limestone, minor quartzite.

1:500,000 sheet: Horton and others, 2017, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052 (35 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.

Glenwood Springs

Eagle/Vail/Minturn/Red Cliff

Leadville

Colorado Springs

Alpine Rock

Gunnison

Every mapped unit with a crag on it.