Deep Cut Guide

Mesaverde Fm, undivided

Late Cretaceous, about 91 to 87 million years old. 4 crags on this site have their map point on it.

What the map says

In northwest and west-central: Major coal beds in lower part; Rollins Sandstone Member at base in Delta, Gunnison, and Pitkin Counties. In southwest: sandstone and shale. Lithology: sandstone, minor shale, coal.

1:500,000 sheet: Horton and others, 2017, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052 (4 crags). A contact line at that scale is about 500 m wide on the ground.

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Durango

Pagosa Springs

Every mapped unit with a crag on it.