General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Kolín
Cadastre: Doubravčany
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1332, 13323
Geological region: Kutná Hora and Čáslav crystalline complexes
Accessibility: - special entry permit necessary (military area, quarry, private land)
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 1486

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Kutná Hora Crystalline. Outcrop in a road cut and in nearby old quarry. Special structural types of two mica orthogneiss: Bladed (straw-like) gneiss and honeycomb gneiss. These two types are very decorative and were used for building purposes. Locality is protected.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Železné hory Mts. Proterozoicum
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: petrology, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: horizontal section, deformation fabrics, characteristic rock
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism), tectonic
Rock: orthogneiss

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature monument
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)
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts, private property

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, Zelenka Přemysl, Knížetová Ludmila, 21.08.03
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 20.07.05, Štědrá Veronika 23.09.10, Kukal Zdeněk 04.10.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1486 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-20]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1486.

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