General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Kolín
Cadastre: Bořetice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1332, 13322
Geological region: Kutná Hora and Čáslav crystalline complexes
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 1353

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old quarry with tectonically deformed ultrabasic rocks, namely garnet-bearing serpentinites. They form a boudine embedded in heterogeneous metamorphites of the Kutná Hora Crystalline. Intensive mylonitisation. Petrologically interesting locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Kutná Hora and Svratka region - Kutná Hora crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: structural geology, petrology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock, deformation fabrics
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: serpentinite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Conflicts of interests: waste disposal, vegetation, exploitation

References

Synek J., Oliveriová D. a Melín M. (1992): Styles of superposed Variscan nappe tectonics, Kutná Hora. Exkurzní průvodce. GlÚ AV ČR. Zelenka et al. (2002): Vysvětlivky ke geologické mapě 1:25 000, list Kolín

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Štědrá Veronika, Zelenka Přemysl, 24.07.02
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 24.11.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1353 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-05]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1353.

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