General Characteristics

County (administration): Liberec Region
District (town): Liberec
Cadastre: Hluboká u Liberce
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0332, 03321
Geological region: Lužice Pluton and Krkonoše-Jizera Massif; Krkonoše-Jizera crystalline complex
Accessibility: - entry permit for car necessary
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 548

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned open pit exposing great part of the Devonian cabonate sequence. Also greenschists are cropping out. Paleontological finds, namely of brachiopods. One of the most complete Devonian sequences in the Ještěd Mts.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Lugicum - Krkonoše-Jizerské hory Mts.crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - devon - střední devon - givet
Subject: stratigraphy, structural geology, sedimentology, petrology
Geological phenomenon: karst, horizontal section, cliff
Genesis: sedimentary, metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: greenschist, marble, dolomite, phyllite, limestone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature monument
Additional information: See the Digital register of the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic AOPK ČR
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (declared as Geological and Biological Locality)
Conflicts of interests: ground instability

References

KUČERA, B, Hromas, J. a Skřivánek, F.(1981): Jeskyně a propasti v Československu. Praha: Academia, 252 s.; GALLWITZ, H. (1930): Geologie des Jeschkengebirges in Nordböhmen. Leipzig: Amtliche hauptvertriebsstelle, G. A. Kaufmann's buchhandlung, Dresden, 63 s.; CHLUPÁČ, I., Hladil, J. (1992): New Devonian occurrences in the Ještěd Mts., North Bohemia : Nové výskyty devonu v Ještědském pohoří v severních Čechách. Časopis pro mineralogii a geologii, vol. 37, no. 3,s. 185-191; Honsa, Sýkorová (2002): Panský lom - Naučná stezka Ještědské vápence (2002) - Jizersko-ještědský horský spolek.; RUBÁŠ, D. (2017): Přírodní klenoty Podještědí :obrazový průvodce krajinou. 1. vydání, 363 stran.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 21.04.93
Updated by: Stanzelová Zuzana 02.10.09, Gürtlerová Pavla 02.09.10, Vajskebrová Markéta 12.01.20

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 548 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-03]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/548.

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