General Characteristics

County (administration): Liberec Region
District (town): Česká Lípa
Cadastre: Zákupy
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0331, 03311
Geological region: Neovolcanics of the České středohoří Mts.
Accessibility: - entry permit for car necessary
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 3691

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: This locality belongs to the area of Tertiary volcanics of the České Středohoří area. In the abandoned quarry a hige diatreme is exposed, filled by an explosive breccia with basalt and Cretaceous sediments fragments, The whole body is transected by five independent dyke bodies of different petrologic composition. In these dykes xenoliths of crust and mantle provenance occur. This locality is recommended for additional research works.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Dispersed Alcalic volcanits
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén)
Subject: volcanology, petrology
Geological phenomenon: dyke, characteristic rock
Genesis: volcanic
Rock: basaltoid (basaltic-rock)

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: reclamation, vegetation

References

Shields, S., Petronis, M. S., Rapprich, V., Lindline, J., Valenta, J., & Falance, J. J. (2016, February). A Multi-Disciplinary Study Evaluating Magma Emplacement Processes of the Oligocene Zákupy Diatreme (Czech Republic). In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Rapprich Vladislav, 16.08.13
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 08.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3691 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-28]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3691.

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