Deep Cut Guide

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

Lyons

Every mapped unit with a crag on it.