General Characteristics

County (administration): Liberec Region
District (town): Liberec
Cadastre: Hodkovice nad Mohelkou
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0332, 03321
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous of the Krkonoše-piedmont and Lower Silesian basins
Accessibility: - access without footpath
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 1461

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Rocky ledge totally about 800 m long with the sequence of undifferentiated Vrchlabí and Chotěvice Formations, two andesitoidic bodies, the body of rhyolite ignimbrite (Permian, Autunian) and quartsoze sandstone of Korycany Member of Peruc - Korycany Formation (Cretaceous, Cenomanian).
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Lugic Late Palaeozoicum (including Triassic deposits), Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - perm, mezozoikum - křída
Subject: geomorphology, volcanology, sedimentology, stratigraphy
Geological phenomenon: unconformity, lithological boundary, selective erosion, rock, horizontal section, transgression, characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary, volcanic
Rock: melaphyre, rhyolite, ignimbrite, conglomerate, sandstone, volcaniclastic deposits, tuffite, tuff

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: vegetation

References

Drozen J. (1960): Geologicko - petrografické poměry údolí Mohelky mezi Rychnovem nad Nisou a Hodkovicemi nad Mohelkou. - MS, diplomová práce, PřFUK. Praha.; Středa J. (1971): Geologicko -petrografické poměry mnichovohradišťské deprese u Hodkovic nad Mohelkou. - Sbor. geol. Věd. Geologie, 21, 109 - 156. Praha.; Schovánková D. (1985): Mladopaleozoický vulkanismus mnichovohradišťské a podkrkonošské pánve in: Tásler R. et al. 1985: Mnichovohradišťská pánev - zhodnocení geologických a uhelně ložiskových poměrů. - MS, Archiv ČGS. Praha.; Prouza V. (1993): Výsledky nového geologického mapování permokarbonu mezi Kozákovem a Hodkovicemi nad Mohelkou. - Sbor. VII. uhel. geol. konf. přírodov. fak., 167 - 169. Praha.; Pešek J. et al. (2001): Geologie a ložiska svrchnopaleozoických limnických pánví České republiky. - Český geologický ústav, 243 s. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Prouza Vladimír, 22.01.03
Updated by: Prouza Vladimír 15.05.03, Šimůnek Zbyněk 29.09.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1461 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2023-12-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1461.

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