General Characteristics

County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Děčín
Cadastre: Malá Veleň
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0223, 02234
Geological region: Neovolcanics of the České středohoří Mts.
Accessibility: - passable footpath
ID : 142

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Natural outcrop on a steep slope. Large division plane of a system of blocky landslides. Steep cliff and talus cone on its base. The rocks are supposed to be basaltoids and represent a part of a stratovolcano of the České Středohoří Mts. volcanic complex. Geologically interesting locality.
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, sedimentology, geomorphology, petrology
Geological phenomenon: lahar, volcaniclastic deposits, characteristic rock
Genesis: volcanic , sedimentary
Rock: lahar, volcaniclastic deposits

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registred geological localities suggested to protection in Protected landscape area
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: vegetation

References

Čech, S. et al. (1991): Vysvětlivky a Základní geologická mapa ČR 1 : 25 000, list 02-411 Ústí nad Labem. - MS Archiv ČGU, Praha. Hibsch, J. E. (1897): Geologische Karte des Bohmischen Mittelgebirges, Blatt III. (Bensen), nebst Erlauterungen. - A. Holder, Wien. Valečka, J. et al. (in prep.): Vysvětlivky a základní geologická mapa ČR 1:25 000, list 02-234 Děčín.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Cajz Vladimír, 24.11.93
Updated by: Rapprich Vladislav 07.10.09, Rapprich Vladislav 11.11.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 142 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/142.

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