General Characteristics

County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Děčín
Cadastre: Horní Podluží
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0224, 02242
Geological region: Neovolcanics of the České středohoří Mts.
Accessibility: - access without footpath
ID : 1864

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Cliffs of Tertiary tephrite to basanite with imperfect columnar jointing. They represent a relict of a lava flow, overlying pyroclastics.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Dispersed Alcalic volcanits
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén)
Subject: volcanology, petrology, geomorphology
Geological phenomenon: rock
Genesis: volcanic , weathering
Rock: tephrite, basanite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts, agriculture

References

Valečka Jaroslav a kolektiv autorů, 2000: Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR v měřítku 1 : 25 000 list 02242 Nový Bor.- Český geologický ústav Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Valečka Jaroslav, 16.12.03
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 18.01.05, Vajskebrová Markéta 02.05.19

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1864 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-20]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1864.

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