General Characteristics

County (administration): Liberec Region
District (town): Česká Lípa
Cadastre: Provodín
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0242, 02424
Geological region: Neovolcanics of the České středohoří Mts.
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: guarry
ID : 3696

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Rocky cliffs and a complex of small quarries with outcrops of phonolites. This locality is unique, because the phonolite dyke is the longest in the whole Czech Republic. On the other hand, phonolites usually occur in form of loaf like bodies. This locality belongs to the Protected Landscape Area Kokořínsko-Máchův kraj.
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
Genesis: volcanic
Rock: phonolite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Interesting geological localities in Protected landscape area
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Kokořínsko
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

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Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Rapprich Vladislav, 16.08.13
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 19.02.18, Kukal Zdeněk 19.02.18

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3696 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3696.

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