Deep Cut Guide

Porphyroblastic Biotite Schist

Gneiss, schist & quartzite. about 4,000 to 541 million years old. 20 crags on this site have their map point on it.

What the map says

Characterized by abundant porphyroblasts of coarse biotite

1:100,000 sheet: Colton, Roger B., 1976, U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series I-855-G (20 crags). 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

Fort Collins

Every mapped unit with a crag on it.