General Characteristics

County (administration): Vysočina Region
District (town): Jihlava
Cadastre: Lhotka u Mrákotína
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2341, 23413
Geological region: Moldanubian Pluton - Central Massif; Melechov Massif
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
ID : 1291

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Series of rocky cliffs. A summit is formed by flat cryoplanational plain. Also ruins of a medieval castle. Geomorphologically interesting locality with rock wall, frost weathering features and boulder field. This locality is registered as a Natural Reserve.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moldanubicum - Magmatites in Moldanubicum, Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Quaternary - Quaternary of denudation areas of Bohemian Massif
Stratigraphy: variské (hercynské) stáří vyvřelin, kenozoikum - kvartér
Subject: geomorphology, petrology
Geological phenomenon: block field, frost cliff, karren
Genesis: magmatic, frost weathering
Rock: granite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature reserve
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 and Biological Locality)
Part of the Geopark: Vysočina
Conflicts of interests: sports, waste disposal

References

Tauber O. 1987: periglaciální tvary jihozápadní části Českomoravské vrchoviny.- Vlastivědný sborník vysočiny, odd.věd přírodních, VIII, 1987, 48-49.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Pertoldová Jaroslava, Hanžl Pavel, 28.01.02
Updated by: Pertoldová Jaroslava 23.05.03, Gürtlerová Pavla 13.10.10, Kukal Zdeněk 21.11.17, Vajskebrová Markéta 31.08.23

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1291 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-05]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1291.

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