General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Chrudim
Cadastre: Proseč u Seče
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1343, 13432
Geological region: Oheb, Svratka and Polička crystalline complex; Železné hory Mts. Proterozoic; Hlinsko Zone; Železné hory Mts. Pluton; Chrudim Palaeozoic
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 1586

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Kutná Hora Crystalline. Nature Reserve in the Protected Landscape Area. Rocky promontory overlooking a dam lake. A ruin of the Oheb Castle from the 14th century dominates this area. Rock complex consists of orthogneisses and migmatites (also called the Oheb Gneiss,the Oheb Crystalline represents local geological unit belonging to the Kutná Hory Crystalline). The gneiss is reddish, with schistose disintegration, locally deeply weathered. Thick cover of colluvial deposits and block fields.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Kutná Hora and Svratka region - Kutná Hora crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: geomorphology, petrology
Geological phenomenon: rock salient, block field, scree
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism), weathering
Rock: orthogneiss, migmatite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature reserve 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 and Biological Locality)
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Železné hory
Part of the Geopark: Železné hory
Conflicts of interests: tourism

References

Faltysová H., Bárta F. a kol. Pardubicko (2002):In: Mackovčin P., Sedláček M.(eds): Chráněná území ČR, Svazek IV. Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR a EkoCentrum Brno,str.254 Praha.; Žežulková, V. edit. (1988): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČSR 1:25 000, list 13-441 Nasavrky. MS - archiv ČGS. Praha; Štědrá V. a kol. (v tisku): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČSR 1:25 000, list 13-432 Vilémov, ČGS.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Jirková Pavlína, 04.11.09
Updated by: Rambousek Petr 25.09.12, Štědrá Veronika 24.02.21, Vajskebrová Markéta 15.12.21

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1586 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-25]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1586.

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