However, if you visit, be careful of possible hazardous conditions. This is my field sketch map of the surficial geology I found during a day's visit. This picture, and the next two were taken on the first hill south of New York Mountain Road, and north of the Golden Quail mine. It shows the swirling deformed bedding planes in the metasandstone. There are numerous outcrops of meta-conglomerate in this area.
Conglomerate is a sedimentary rock of sand and rounded gravel.
When the rock is fractured, as the rock face is in this photograph, the fracture cuts right through what used to be individual pebbles, giving this natural terrazzo effect. Slickensides near Golden Quail mine. George Hilton examines some exposed slickensides in a small adit on the east side of the hill. Perhaps this is one trace of the Cedar Canyon Fault. Kate, Scott, Matt and Linda are looking at the owl chicks in a nest about 6 feet down the shaft.