Pegmatites of the Crystal Mountain District, Larimer County, Colorado (open access)

Pegmatites of the Crystal Mountain District, Larimer County, Colorado

From abstract: The Front Range of Colorado is composed chiefly of schists of the Idaho Springs formation of pre-Cambrian age which have been intruded by a variety of granitic batholiths. In the Crystal Mountain district the Mount Olympus granite, a satellite of Fuller's Longs Peak batholith, forms sills and essentially concordant multiple intrusions in quartz-mica schist that dips southward at moderate to steep angles. A great number of pegmatites accompanied and followed the intrusion of the sills and formed concordant and discordant bodies in schist and granite.
Date: 1955
Creator: Thurston, William R.
System: The UNT Digital Library