Deep Cut Guide

Madison Limestone and Lodore Fm

Limestone. Paleozoic, about 359 to 335 million years old. 1 crag on this site has its map point on it.

The map groups these named formations into this unit: Madison Limestone, Lodore Formation.

What the map says

The sheet gives no description for this unit. Lithology: limestone, minor sandstone, shale, conglomerate.

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

Cross Mountain Boulders

Every mapped unit with a crag on it.