General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Kolín
Cadastre: Bohouňovice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1332, 13322
Geological region: Kutná Hora and Čáslav crystalline complexes
Technical object: old mine workings
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 1355

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Natural outcrops of garnet-bearing serpentinite covered by Cretaceous sediments. Garnet grains were washed from the weathered portion of serpentinite. Unique example of old exploitation of Bohemian garnets.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Kutná Hora and Svratka region - Kutná Hora crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: economic geology, mining and mining impacts, petrology, mineralogy
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock
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: agriculture, forestry

References

Běhal V., Pauliš P. (2001) Paris, P. (1972): Horniny a granáty kutnohorského krystalinika. -Dipl. práce PřFUK, MS Geofond Praha. Doubek, Z. (1996): Zaniklá lokalita granátu a sférolitického křemene hvězdovce od Bohouňovic u Červených Peček. - Minerál 1996/6, str. 388-390, nakl. M.Bohatý, Brno.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Štědrá Veronika, Zelenka Přemysl, 24.07.04
Updated by: Lorencová Markéta 25.01.05

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1355 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-27]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1355.

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