General Characteristics

County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Teplice
Cadastre: Žichov
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0234, 02341
Geological region: Most Basin
ID : 1386

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Discontinuous outcrops in the basal pyroclastics of the Most Basin on the right bank of the Lužický potok Stream, north of Žichov. Tuffs and tuffites are intercalated with freshwater algal limestone. The surrounding field provides abundant platy fragments of diatomite, which yielded fossil leaves, fishes, amphibians, crustaceans and insects in the past, documenting Oligomiocene age of the tuffs. Fragments of silicified wood are common.
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: volcanology, petrology, paleontology, stratigraphy, sedimentology

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registred geological localities suggested to protection in Protected landscape area
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - České středohoří
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Kopecký L., 1990: Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČSSR l:25 000 list 02341 Bílina.- Ústřední ústav geologický Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Plíšek Antonín, 21.10.02
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 23.01.05

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1386 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1386.

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