General Characteristics

County (administration): Liberec Region
District (town): Liberec
Cadastre: Liberec-Hluboká
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0332, 03321
Geological region: Lužice Pluton and Krkonoše-Jizera Massif; Krkonoše-Jizera crystalline complex
Technical object: guarry
ID : 549

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Group of forested quarries show part of a sequence of the Devonian. Limestones are bedded and platy with interlayers of marlstones. Rocks suffered regional and also contact metamorphosis. Fossils also present, as stromatoporoids and tabulates. Stratigraphically important locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Lugicum - Krkonoše-Jizerské hory Mts.crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: paleontology, structural geology, stratigraphy, petrology
Geological phenomenon: fault, cliff
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: limestone

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: without conflicts

References

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Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 21.04.93
Updated by: Mrázová Štěpánka 22.10.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 549 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-03]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/549.

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