General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Kolín
Cadastre: Bříství
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1332, 13321
Geological region: Kutná Hora and Čáslav crystalline complexes
Technical object: guarry
ID : 1361

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old vegetated quarry with a coarse-grained garnet and kyanite-bearing micaschist. Its groundmass consists mostly of mica and garnet. Petrologically interesting rock of the Kutná Hora Crystalline.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Kutná Hora and Svratka region - Kutná Hora crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: petrology, mineralogy

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Conflicts of interests: vegetation, waste disposal

References

Holásek O. et al (2001): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR 1:25 000, list 13321- Svojšice. ČGÚ Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Štědrá Veronika, 30.07.02

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1361 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-03]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1361.

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