General Characteristics

County (administration): Liberec Region
District (town): Liberec
Cadastre: Hodky
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0331, 03312
Geological region: Lužice Pluton and Krkonoše-Jizera Massif; Krkonoše-Jizera crystalline complex
Technical object: guarry
ID : 586

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Two abandoned quarries and nearby dumps. Fossilifeous limestones which bear evidence of their Givetian age. Stratigraphically significant locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Lugicum - Krkonoše-Jizerské hory Mts.crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: paleontology, mining and mining impacts, economic geology, petrology, stratigraphy
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna
Genesis: sedimentary, organogenic (activity of organisms)
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

Chlupáč-Hladil /1992/

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: 586 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-03]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/586.

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