General Characteristics

County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Děčín
Cadastre: Horní Podluží
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0224, 02242
Geological region: Lužice Pluton and Krkonoše-Jizera Massif; Krkonoše-Jizera crystalline complex
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
ID : 1915

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Krkonoše-Jizera crystalline. Abandoned shelf quarry in the porphyritic biotite granite of the Rumburk type. The rock is strongly fractured and weathered. Weathered parts locally pass into sandy eluvium.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Lugicum - Magmatites of Lugicum
Stratigraphy: kadomské stáří vyvřelin
Subject: petrology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock
Genesis: magmatic
Rock: granite, gravel

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Interesting geological localities in Protected landscape area
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Lužické hory
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Valečka J. a kolektiv autorů, 2000: Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR v měřítku 1 : 25 000 list 02242 Dolní Podluží.- Český geologický ústav Praha.; Mrázová, Š., Tomanová Petrová, P., Krentz, O. (2020): Geologie česko-saské křídové pánve mezi Krušnými horami a Ještědem. 100 s., ČGS Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Valečka Jaroslav, 31.12.00
Updated by: Gürtlerová Pavla 15.07.09, Vajskebrová Markéta 20.11.19

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1915 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-02]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1915.

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