General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Kutná Hora
Cadastre: Poličany
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1332, 13324
Geological region: Kutná Hora and Čáslav crystalline complexes
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: guarry
ID : 3188

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Kutná Hora Crystalline. Quarry on a bank of Vrchlice riverlet. Water course Vrchlice and its banks played an important role in history of mining in the Kutná Hora mining field. In this quarry migmatized two-mica and biotite granites occur, together with some amphibolites, mica schists with garnet and kyanite and also eclogite. Locality is also important mineralogically, minerals of alpine paragenesis were collected on fissures in upper part of this quarry.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Kutná Hora and Svratka region - Kutná Hora crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: geology, geomorphology, mining and mining impacts, economic geology, mineralogy, petrology, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: river channel, lithological boundary, horizontal section, fold, ore mineralization, vein, characteristic rock, mineral
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism), hydrothermal mineralization, anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity), tectonic
Rock: migmatite, eclogite, ultramafic rock, gneiss, mica schist

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: waste disposal, vegetation

References

Štědrá ed. (2010): Základní geologická mapa ČR 1 : 25 000, list 13-324 Kutná Hora s Vysvětlivkami. ČGS Praha

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Štědrá Veronika, 17.06.10
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 04.10.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3188 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-28]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3188.

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