Deep Cut Guide

Rhyodacite And Basalt

Basalt & volcanic. Paleocene, about 66 to 56 million years old. 15 crags on this site have their map point on it.

What the map says

Rhyodacite in sills between Lyons and Boulder is light-gray, very fine grained felsite and felsite porphyry. Sills are as much as 46 m thick, but most are about half that. Radiometric age (Larson and Hoblitt, 1973, p. 3) of Flagstaff Mountain sill is 64.

1:100,000 sheet: Colton, Roger B., 1976, U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series I-855-G (15 crags). A contact line at that scale is about 100 m wide on the ground.

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Boulder

Every mapped unit with a crag on it.