Deep Cut Guide

Pierre Shale, Upper Shale Member

Late Cretaceous, about 84 to 75 million years old. 1 crag on this site has its map point on it.

What the map says

Gray concretionary silty shale. Thickness about 865 m

1:100,000 sheet: Colton, Roger B., 1976, U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series I-855-G (1 crag). A contact line at that scale is about 100 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.

Boulder

Every mapped unit with a crag on it.