Deep Cut Guide

Maroon Fm

Paleozoic, about 306 to 270 million years old. 8 crags on this site have their map point on it.

What the map says

Arkosic sandstone, siltstone, conglomerate, and local limestone Lithology: arkose, siltstone, conglomerate.

1:500,000 sheet: Horton and others, 2017, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052 (8 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.

Carbondale Area

Alpine Rock

Crested Butte

Every mapped unit with a crag on it.