General Characteristics

County (administration): Karlovy Vary Region
District (town): Karlovy Vary
Cadastre: Heřmanov u Starého sedla
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1141, 11412
Geological region: Teplá, Tachov, Smrčiny, Svatava, Cheb-Dyleň a Slavkov crystalline complexes, Thüringen - Vogtland Palaeozoic; Karlovy Vary Massif (SE part)
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 1270

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Active quarry with alkaline volcanites, mostly of Tertiary age. They have composition of a trachyte with common feldspar phenocrysts. Petrologically important locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Dispersed Alcalic volcanits
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén)
Subject: petrology, volcanology, economic geology
Geological phenomenon: rock, characteristic rock
Genesis: volcanic
Rock: trachyte

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
Part of the Geopark: Egeria
Conflicts of interests: reclamation

References

Táborský Z., 1997: Challenges to chemical geology ´97. - Field Trip Guide, 1997, str. 26 - 27, ČGÚ. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Dašková Jiřina, 27.11.01
Updated by: Žáček Vladimír 14.06.10, Gürtlerová Pavla 01.08.10, Vajskebrová Markéta 29.05.18

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1270 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1270.

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