General Characteristics

County (administration): Karlovy Vary Region
District (town): Karlovy Vary
Cadastre: Bražec u Hradiště
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1124, 11241
Geological region: Cheb & Sokolov basins and Neovolcanics of the Doupovské hory Mts.
Accessibility: - special entry permit necessary (military area, quarry, private land)
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 1

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Natural outcrops exposing coarse-grained unsorted volcanic agglomerates. They consist mostly of blocks and boulders of various lava types. The layers of coarse agglomerates are separated by thin interbeds of a volcanic ash. Volcanologically interesting locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Basins under Krušné hory Mts.and adjoining volcanic uplands
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén)
Subject: geology, volcanology, mineralogy
Geological phenomenon: lahar, characteristic rock
Genesis: volcanic
Rock: agglomerate

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Nebyla použita

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Hradecký Petr, 11.10.94
Updated by: Rapprich Vladislav 07.10.09, Rapprich Vladislav 11.11.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1.

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