General Characteristics

County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Děčín
Cadastre: Sněžník
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0223, 02233
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - Jizera Cretaceous & Cretaceous of the lower section of Labe River, Ploučnice, Kamenice and the Děčínský Sněžník Mt.
Accessibility: - entry permit for car necessary
Technical object: gallery, old mine workings
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 1610

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: The Bohemian Cretaceouzs Basin. The cave within blocks of Turonian silicified quartzose sandstones. It occurs on a tectonic fracture and was formed by collapsing of sandstone blocks. The cave was discovered during a fluorite surveying. It is as long as 96 m. Nmerous mesorelief and microrelief features on its walls.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - turon
Subject: mineralogy, geomorphology, economic geology
Geological phenomenon: pseudocrast cave, vein, fault, slickenside
Genesis: gravitational, anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity), sedimentary, hydrothermal mineralization
Rock: sandstone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature monument 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 Locality)
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Labské pískovce
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Kolektiv autorů. (1999): Ústecko. In: Mackovčin P. (ed.): Chráněná území ČR, svazek I. Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR, Praha.; Fengl, M. (1983): Otevřené dutiny na fluoritovém ložisku Jílové u Děčína. Sb. Český Kras 8, 76-77. OM Beroun.; Lysenko, V., Schwarzer, J., Sluka, M. (1986): Přirozené kaverny v pískovcích jižních svahů Děčínského Sněžníku. Sb. Český kras 12, 100-105. OM Beroun.; Lysenko, V. (1989): Fluorit caves in the Dečín Sněžník area /Czechoslovakia/. Int. Congr. of Speleol. 10. Proceedings I. Budapest 1989

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Valečka Jaroslav, 05.06.08
Updated by: Valečka Jaroslav 11.11.08, Valečka Jaroslav 12.11.08, Gürtlerová Pavla 25.08.09, Vajskebrová Markéta 25.11.21

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1610 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-30]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1610.

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