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## Geologic Map of the Clark Peak Quadrangle, Jackson and Larimer Counties, Colorado

#### By Karl S. Kellogg, Chester A. Ruleman, Ralph R. Shroba, and William A. Braddock

| The Clark Peak quadrangle encompasses the southern end of the Medicine Bow Mountains and the northernmost end of the Mummy Range.  The Continental Divide traverses the map area and Highway 14 cross the Divide at Cameron Pass, in the southeastern corner of the map.  Approximately the eastern half of the map, and a few areas to the west, are underlain by Early Proterozoic plutonic and metamorphic rocks.  Most of these basement rocks are part of the~1,715 Ma Rawah batholith, composed mostly of pinkish, massive to moderately foliated monzogranite and granodiorite intruded by numerous, large pegmatite-aplite bodies.   The metamorphic rocks, many of which form large inclusions in the granitic rocks of the Rawah batholith, include biotite-hornblende gneiss, hornblende gneiss, amphibolite, and biotite schist.  The crystalline basement rocks are thrust westward along the Medicine Bow thrust over a sequence of sedimentary rocks as old as the Upper Permian Satanka Shale.  The SatankaShale, Middle and Lower Triassic Chugwater Group, and a thin sandstone tentatively correlated with the Lower Jurassic and Upper Triassic Jelm Formation are combined as one map unit.  This undivided unit is overlain sequentially upward by the Upper Jurassic Sundance Formation, Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, Lower Cretaceous Dakota Group, Upper and Lower Cretaceous Benton Group, Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation, and the Eocene and Paleocene Coalmont Formation.  The Late Cretaceous to early Eocene Medicine Bow thrust is folded in places, and several back thrusts produced a complicated thrust pattern in the south part of the map.  Early Oligocene magmatism produced rhyolite tuff, dacite and basalt flows, and intermediate dikes and small stocks.  A 40Ar/39Ar date on sanidine from one rhyolite tuff is ~28.5 Ma; a similar whole-rock date on a trachybasalt is ~29.6 Ma.  A very coarse, unsorted probably pre-Quaternary ridge-top diamicton crops out in the southern part of the quadrangle.  Numerous glacial deposits (mostly of Pinedale age), rock glaciers, block-slope deposits, landslide deposits, talus deposits, fan deposits, colluvium, and alluvium comprise the surficial deposits of the map area. | Version 2.0

First posted August 2008
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### Suggested citation:

Kellogg, K.S., Ruleman, C.A., Shroba, R.R., and Braddock,W.A., 2010, Geologic map of the Clark Peak quadrangle,Jackson and Larimer Counties, Colorado:  U.S. GeologicalSurvey Scientific Investigations Map 3010, ver. 2.0, scale: 1:24,000.

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