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General Characteristics

County (administration): Liberec Region
District (town): Semily
Cadastre: Loktuše, Lestkov, Vesec
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0332, 03324
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous of the Krkonoše-piedmont and Lower Silesian basins
Accessibility: - entry permit for car necessary
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 1208

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Quartz porphyrites (partly in form of ignimbrites) and melaphyres form a part of a Permocarbonifeous volcanic complex. Melaphyres have amygdaloid texture and yielded numerous gemstones and special minerals, as agate, amethyst, analcite, apophylite, chalcedony, fluorite and many others. Significant mineralogical and petrological locality. Well known quarry on the Kozákov Hill (see "Votrubcův lom" ID 1457).
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin, Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Permocarboniferous Volcanits
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - perm, mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - cenoman
Subject: mineralogy, geology, sedimentology, botany, geomorphology, petrology, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: vulcano, rock, block field, rock chimney, rock schelter, cliff, unconformity, rock pillar, dyke, fault, outcrop, pseudocrast cave
Genesis: volcanic , sedimentary
Rock: melaphyre, sandstone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: National nature monument in Protected landscape area
Additional information: See the Digital register of the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic AOPK ČR
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (declared as Geological Locality)
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Český ráj
Part of the Geopark: Bohemian Paradise
Conflicts of interests: collection, tourism

References

Chaloupský J., Teisseyre, H., 1968: Geology of the West Sudeten. - Guide to Excursion 8 AC, International geolog. congress, XXIII session, Prague 1968, str. 13 - 14. Praha.Mackovčin P., Sedláček M. a Kuncová J. (2002): Chráněná území ČR - Liberecko, Svazek III. Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR a EkoCentrum Brno, Praha, 331 s.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Dašková Jiřina, 25.10.01
Updated by: Lorencová Markéta 26.06.07, Prouza Vladimír 07.11.08

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1208 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-03-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1208.

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J. svahy Kozákova pískovcové skály u Drábovny, Pavla Gürtlerová, 2010
J. svahy Kozákova pískovcové skály u Drábovny, Pavla Gürtlerová, 2010
J. svahy Kozákova pískovcové skály u Drábovny, Pavla Gürtlerová, 2010
J. svahy Kozákova pískovcové skály u Drábovny, Pavla Gürtlerová, 2010
Drábovna - vytesaná světnička v pískovcích na j. svazích Kozákova, Pavla Gürtlerová, 2010
J. svahy Kozákova pískovcové skály u Drábovny, Pavla Gürtlerová, 2010
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