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Geologic Map of the Maysville Quadrangle, Chaffee County, Colorado

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GEOLOGIC HAZARDS<br />

Potential geologic hazards in <strong>the</strong> <strong>Maysville</strong> quadrangle fall into four categories:<br />

(1) landslides, (2) floods and debris flows, (3) seismicity and active faulting, and (4)<br />

abandoned mined lands.<br />

LANDSLIDES<br />

We mapped 12 landslide deposits, and 2 large inferred slide blocks <strong>of</strong> relatively<br />

intact Proterozoic rock (table 5). The mean area <strong>of</strong> all landslide deposits (excluding <strong>the</strong><br />

inferred slide blocks) is 19 acres, with a range from 1 acre to 45 acres. These areas do not<br />

include <strong>the</strong> source area from which <strong>the</strong> landslide slid, which lies between <strong>the</strong> slide<br />

headscarp and <strong>the</strong> upslope margin <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> landslide deposit.<br />

Table 5. Summary <strong>of</strong> landslide deposit areas, by map unit in <strong>the</strong> <strong>Maysville</strong> quadrangle.<br />

<strong>Map</strong><br />

Unit<br />

Number <strong>of</strong> Deposits/ Description/Lithologies<br />

Range <strong>of</strong><br />

Areas<br />

(acres)<br />

Mean<br />

Area<br />

(acres)<br />

Qlsy<br />

1 area; young landslide deposits, uneroded; 1.1 1.1<br />

failure <strong>of</strong> residuum at head <strong>of</strong> 1 st -order drainage<br />

Qlso<br />

3 areas; older landslide deposits (eroded, 18-45 35<br />

dissected); 2 small wedge failures in Proterozoic<br />

rock; 1 slump in Td<br />

Qls<br />

7 areas; undivided landslide deposits; 2 slumps 2-33 15<br />

<strong>of</strong>f <strong>the</strong> Pinedale terminal moraine <strong>of</strong> Squaw<br />

Creek; 2 slumps in residuum () flanking Qlsy;<br />

small slide in Tqm in North Fork; slide <strong>of</strong>f range<br />

front fault zone between North Fork and Lost<br />

Creek; slide at N map boundary<br />

Inferred slide 2 very large wedge failures <strong>of</strong> Proterozoic rock 385-830 608<br />

blocks<br />

TOTALS 12<br />

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