General Characteristics

County (administration): Hradec Králové Region
District (town): Náchod
Cadastre: Rožmitál
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0432, 04323
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous of the Krkonoše-piedmont and Lower Silesian basins
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 1865

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Several abandoned quarries at the upper margin of the Rožmitál village. Andezitoides of different varietas: massive, amygdaloidal, tuffaceous aglomerates. Primary minerals: malachite, azurite, limonite, barite, sulfides and oxides Cu, rarely also pure Cu. Fossil bivalves have been found in sediments overlying andezitoide. Olivětín Member, Broumov Formation.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Lugic Late Palaeozoicum (including Triassic deposits), Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Permocarboniferous Volcanits
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - perm
Subject: mineralogy, paleontology, petrology, volcanology
Geological phenomenon: intrusion, lava, lava flow, cliff, volcaniclastic deposits, vulcano, characteristic rock
Genesis: volcanic
Rock: melaphyre, volcaniclastic deposits

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registred geological localities suggested to protection in Protected landscape area
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Broumovsko
Part of the Geopark: Broumovsko
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts, open cast mining

References

Tásler R., Kotlář J. (1987): Geologie chráněné krajinné oblasti Broumovsko. ? MS. str. 64 + 4 přílohy. Archiv CHKO Broumovsko. Police nad Metují. , Vítek J. (1986): Geomorfologie navrhovaná chráněné krajinné oblasti Broumovsko. MS. str.68 + 35 příloh. Archiv CHKO Broumovsko. Police nad Metují.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Plná Věra, 05.01.04
Updated by: Šimůnek Zbyněk 09.10.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1865 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-25]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1865.

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