Silver Plume Quartz Monzonite
Granite. about 4,000 to 541 million years old. 17 crags on this site have their map point on it.
What the map says
Pale yellowish- orange to pale reddish-gray, equigranular, fine- to medium-grained, biotite- muscovite quartz monzonite; some outcrops are gray to tan, medium- to coarse-grained porphyritic quartz monzonite that contains tabular microcline phenocrysts; c
1:100,000 sheet: Colton, Roger B., 1976, U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series I-855-G (2 crags). A contact line at that scale is about 100 m wide on the ground.
Coarse-grained to fairly fine-grained muscovite-biotite quartz monzonite. Locally foliated. Age about 1.44 billion years (Hedge, 1969).
1:100,000 sheet: Trimble and others, 2003, U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series I-856-H (15 crags). A contact line at that scale is about 100 m wide on the ground.
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Morrison/Evergreen/Littleton
- The Eggs3 routes and 60 boulder problems · Alderfer/Three Sisters Park · 7,505 ft · granite (Silver Plume-type quartz monzonite) (another source)
- Gilligan's Island2 routes and 45 boulder problems · Alderfer/Three Sisters Park · 7,701 ft · granite (Silver Plume-type quartz monzonite) (another source)
- Work and Play Area42 boulder problems · Alderfer/Three Sisters Park · 7,631 ft · granite (Silver Plume-type quartz monzonite) (another source)
- Tortuga34 boulder problems · Alderfer/Three Sisters Park · 7,677 ft · granite (Silver Plume-type quartz monzonite) (another source)
- The Land of Slabs19 boulder problems · Alderfer/Three Sisters Park · 7,689 ft · granite (Silver Plume-type quartz monzonite) (another source)
- The Pass17 boulder problems · Alderfer/Three Sisters Park · 7,734 ft · granite (Silver Plume-type quartz monzonite) (another source)
- Energy Crag1 route and 13 boulder problems · Alderfer/Three Sisters Park · 7,708 ft · granite (Silver Plume-type quartz monzonite) (another source)
- Pirate's Cove13 boulder problems · Alderfer/Three Sisters Park · 7,718 ft · granite (Silver Plume-type quartz monzonite) (another source)
- The Memorial Boulders.10 boulder problems · Alderfer/Three Sisters Park · 7,695 ft · granite (Silver Plume-type quartz monzonite) (another source)
- Sisters/Hidden Fawn Boulders10 boulder problems · Alderfer/Three Sisters Park · 7,541 ft · granite (Silver Plume-type quartz monzonite) (another source)
- The Brother's Lookout South Face9 boulder problems · Alderfer/Three Sisters Park · 7,761 ft · granite (Silver Plume-type quartz monzonite) (another source)
- The Three Sisters6 routes and 1 boulder problem · Alderfer/Three Sisters Park · 7,753 ft · granite (Silver Plume-type quartz monzonite) (another source)
- Peabody Boulders6 boulder problems · Alderfer/Three Sisters Park · 7,753 ft · granite (Silver Plume-type quartz monzonite) (another source)
- Ocelot Cliffs1 route · 8,231 ft
- SW Evergreen1 boulder problem · 7,784 ft