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## Preliminary Geologic Map of the Culebra Peak Area, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Las Animas and Costilla Counties, Colorado

#### By Christopher J. Fridrich and Robert M. Kirkham

| **Abstract**
This geologic map provides new geologic mapping at 1:50,000-scale in the Culebra Peak area of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of south-central Colorado. The map area includes all of the El Valle Creek, Stonewall, Culebra Peak, and Torres 7.5' quadrangles.  Paleoproterozoic crystalline basement rocks are exposed along the crest of the Culebra Range which include a calc-alkaline gneiss sequence and a metasedimentary and bimodal metavolcanic sequence which are strongly foliated and display a northeast-southwest oriented structural trend.  These rocks are intruded by several large granitic bodies and smaller amphibolitic and pegmatitic bodies which are also foliated.  These basement rocks are intruded by a set of younger Neoproterozoic to lower Paleozoic gabbro dikes which are nonfoliated.  These crystalline rocks are overlain to the east of the Culebra Range by  a thick sequence of Phanerozoic sedimentary rocks which include upper Paleozoic syn-tectonic sedimentary rocks of the Colorado Trough related to the Ancestral Rocky Mountains, Mesozoic post-tectonic sedimentary rocks, Cretaceous interior seaway sediments, and Laramide-age syn-tectonic sedimentary rocks of the Raton Basin.  These rocks are faulted and folded by Laramide-age deformation.  Tertiary igneous and volcaniclastic rocks that postdate the Laramide Orogeny are exposed throughout the map area and to the west of the Culebra Range, syntectonic sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Sante Fe Group were deposited as fill in basins of the Rio Grande rift.  These deposits are cut by rift-related extensional faults.  Surficial units include alluvial, lacustrine, glacial, and mass-wasting deposits.          Available as one printed sheet: Order from the USGS Store | Version 1.0

Posted July 2008
-  **Map** PDF (5.2 MB) 
-  **Downloads** Directory 
Contains: geospatial database. Refer to the Metadata file for more information. |
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**Suggested citation:**

Fridrich, C.J., and Kirkham, R.M., 2007, Preliminary geologic map of the Culebra Peak area, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Las Animas and Costilla Counties, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007–1428, scale 1:50,000.

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