General Characteristics

County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Ústí nad Labem
Cadastre: Ústí nad Labem
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0241, 02411
Geological region: Neovolcanics of the České středohoří Mts.
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
ID : 146

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Artificial outcrop exposing volcaniclastic sediments. They were formed by hyaloclastic pocesses and subsequent redeposition of fine-grained material. Sedimentologically and volcanologically 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
Geological phenomenon: volcaniclastic deposits, characteristic rock
Genesis: volcanic , sedimentary
Rock: volcaniclastic deposits

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (declared as Geological Locality)
Conflicts of interests: estates, ground instability, 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.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Cajz Vladimír, 25.11.93
Updated by: Rapprich Vladislav 07.10.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 146 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-06]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/146.

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