General Characteristics

County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Litoměřice
Cadastre: Boreč u Lovosic
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0243, 02431
Geological region: Neovolcanics of the České středohoří Mts.
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 137

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Isolated prominent hill and its talus cone. Outcrops of an intrusion of the sodalite trachyte into silicified clayey limestones of the Rohatec Beds. Special microclimate in talus voids causes temperature inversion during winter season. Volcanologically, geomorphologically and climatologically remarkable site, also touristically attractive locality (in both summer and winter season).
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Basins under Krušné hory Mts.and adjoining volcanic uplands
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén)
Subject: geology, geomorphology, botany
Geological phenomenon: intrusion, scree field, block field
Genesis: volcanic
Rock: trachyte

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: National nature monument in Protected landscape area
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 Locality)
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - České středohoří
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Macák, F. et al. (1963): Základní geologická mapa 1 : 25 000 M-33-52-B-d Milešovka. - Archiv ÚÚG, Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Cajz Vladimír, 10.11.94
Updated by: Hradecký Petr 10.11.08, Rapprich Vladislav 19.11.08

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 137 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-20]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/137.

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