Deep Cut Guide

Weber Sandstone and Maroon Fm

Sandstone. Paleozoic, about 306 to 270 million years old. 2 crags on this site have their map point on it.

The map groups these named formations into this unit: Weber Sandstone, Maroon Formation.

What the map says

The sheet gives no description for this unit. Lithology: sandstone, arkose, minor siltstone, conglomerate.

1:500,000 sheet: Horton and others, 2017, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052 (2 crags). A contact line at that scale is about 500 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.

CO Ice & Mixed

Eagle/Vail/Minturn/Red Cliff

Every mapped unit with a crag on it.