General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Kutná Hora
Cadastre: Miskovice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1332, 13324
Geological region: Kutná Hora and Čáslav crystalline complexes
Accessibility: - access without footpath
Technical object: guarry
ID : 3189

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Kutná Hora Crystalline. Small abandoned quarry and vegetated outcrops, exhibiting a stringer of dumortieritic pegmatite. This coarse grained pegmatite contains large crystals of muscovite, quartz and potassium feldspar. Turmalin aggregates also occur, locally turmalin crystals are as large as 7 cm. Rare mineral dumortierite was also found.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Kutná Hora and Svratka region - Kutná Hora crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: variské (hercynské) stáří vyvřelin
Subject: mineralogy, paleontology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock, mineral
Genesis: magmatic, metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: pegmatite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Conflicts of interests: agriculture

References

Fiala F.(1954), Losert J. (1956), ;Cempírek J. – Novák M. (2005), Cempírek J. et al. (2006),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: 3189 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-28]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3189.

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